prenom

plural prenoms

1. A formal title or honorific descriptor that precedes the name. For example, in "The Great and Powerful Oz", "The Great and Powerful" is a prenom.

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   The same is also proved of the first and last characters of the group by their appearing in cartouches that are confessedly ideagraphic; one of them in the prenom of No. 26, and the other in No. 29 (or 115 of the plates of the Precis)., which is a variation of that of the king supposed to have been called Ramasis.

   1835, Charles William Wall, An Examination of the Ancient Orthography of the Jews

   The signification of the prenom is shown to have been that this ancient sovereign was “beloved by Phthah ;" the succeeding Ptolemies were forced upon the necessity of some mark of distinction in the record of their names; for this purpose each succeeding monarch had simply but to change the prenominal insignia of his predecessor by the addition of some emblem or symbol.

   1836, The University Magazine: A Literary and Philosophic Review, page 640

   This is the Prusso-Michigan system, and not a department of it, and this is the system which, instead of being treated as a by-word, should be honored and upheld by every conservative citizen who desires to preserve and perpetuate our representative institutions, whether he delights in the prenom of democrat or republican.

   1856, The Peninsular Journal of Medicine and the Collateral Sciences