Assertion: nobility's title | /r/CapableOf | serve as honorific
Facets:
value: merely
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: Titles of nobility were still granted by the emperor, but served merely as honorifics based on a loose system of favours to the Qing emperor and the forwarding of Manchu interests: under a centralised system, the empire's governance was the responsibility of the Confucian-educated scholar-officials and the local gentry, while the literati were accorded gentry status based on lineage.