Results for honorable

Definitions of honorable:

part of speech: adjective

Worthy of honor: illustrious: actuated by principles of honor: conferring honor: becoming men of exalted station: a title of distinction.

part of speech: adverb

HONORABLY.

part of speech: adjective

Worthy of, or conferring, esteem; distinguished in rank; high- minded; illustrious; upright; a title of distinction.

Usage examples for honorable:

• And if he is engaged, it hain't no good reason why he shouldn't speak to other wimmen,- good, honorable married ones too. "Sweet Cicely Or Josiah Allen as a Politician", Josiah Allen's Wife (Marietta Holley)

• Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good report, if there be any virtue or anything worthy of praise, consider the value of these things. "The Children's Bible", Henry A. Sherman Charles Foster Kent

• Artabanus answered him, " O stranger, the laws of men are different, and one thing is honorable to one man, and to others another; but it is honorable for all to honor and observe their own laws. "Plutarch-Lives-of-the-noble-Grecians-and-Romans", Clough, Arthur Hugh