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These ‘honorific forms’ are special lexical items which connote either exaltation~honorification or, conversely, humilification~deference; some ‘honorific forms’ are morphologically unrelated to their corresponding noun or verb, while others are derived through the addition of suffixes or particles with honorific meaning.
— an old grammar book, which I know is not written in English because “humilification” isn’t a word (outside the bedroom).
