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honorificabilitudinitatibus n (chiefly humorous, obsolete, rare)

The state of being able to achieve honours; honourableness. Used as a person's title or the name of a thing meaning "honourable one", or simply as a very long word to indicate prolixity. Today is Saint George’s Day, the feast day of the patron saint of England. It is also the death anniversary, and traditionally celebrated as the birthdate, of the English playwright William Shakespeare (1564–1616). The first appearance of the word honorificabilitudinitatibus in a printed English-language work was in the First Quarto of Shakespeare’s play Love’s Labour’s Lost (1598).

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