honourable US honorable adjective
- possessing or characterized by high principleshonourable intentions
- worthy of or entitled to honour or esteem
- consistent with or bestowing honour
Derived Formshonourableness or US honorableness, nounhonourably or US honorably, adverb Honourable US Honorable adjective
- the Honourable (prenominal) a title of respect placed before a name: employed before the names of various officials in the English-speaking world, as a courtesy title in Britain for the children of viscounts and barons and the younger sons of earls, and in Parliament by one member speaking of anotherAbbreviation: Hon
Examples from the Web for honourable Historical Examples of honourable
Would it be so criminal when it all tends to what is honourable—marriage?
Molire
A most honourable person, but one who has had many misfortunes.
Emile Zola
There is an ingenuousness, an honourable frankness about him, that I love.
Tales And Novels, Volume 5 (of 10)
Maria Edgeworth
This is not an honourable way of proceeding in Mr. Lovelace.
Samuel Richardson
That would have been asking too much, of the most honourable man, in the circumstances.
C. N. Williamson
Word Origin and History for honourable adj.
chiefly British English spelling of honorable; also see -or. Related: Honourably.