Results for honourable

Definitions of honourable:

Deserving or implying honour; high- minded; actuated by the principles of honour; of high rank in society; used as a title of rank or high office, as right honourable; without taint or reproach.

Usage examples for honourable:

• Lady Drum was over- fond of finding out relations to be sure; but this speech of Right Honourable Ned's was rather too much. "The History of Samuel Titmarsh and the Great Hoggarty Diamond", William Makepeace Thackeray

• Their leader, with whom the Honourable George had consented to game this evening, was a tall, careless- spoken person, with a narrow, dark face marked with heavy black brows that were rather tremendous in their effect when he did not smile. "Ruggles of Red Gap", Harry Leon Wilson

• I always knew you were a kind and honourable man. "The Live Corpse", Leo Tolstoy

• Lady Hannah called you honourable "The Dop Doctor", Clotilde Inez Mary Graves