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courtesy title

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courtesy title
n.
1. A title of no legal validity that is assumed or granted by custom, such as the academic title professor given to any instructor at a college.
2.
a. In Great Britain, the title that the heir of a high-ranking peer customarily uses, consisting of a secondary title accorded to the peer.
b. In Great Britain, the prefixes Lord and Lady added to the given names of the younger children of dukes and marquises or the Honourable added to the children of viscounts and barons.
courtesy title
n
(Government, Politics & Diplomacy) any of several titles having no legal significance, such as those borne by the children of peers


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Wyatt's work was continued by his poetical disciple and successor, Henry Howard, who, as son of the Duke of Norfolk, held the courtesy title of Earl of Surrey.
A History of English Literature by Fletcher, Robert Huntington View in context
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