honourable
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honourable¹
Where it comes from
From Middle English honourable, from Old French honorable, honurable, from Latin honōrābilis, from honōrō (“to honour”); cognate with Italian onorabile, Spanish honorable. By surface analysis, honour + -able. In this sense, largely displaced Old English ārfæst.
adjective more honourable · most honourable
- UK standard spelling of honorable. It was aptly said by Newton that "whatever is not deduced from facts must be regarded as hypothesis," but hypothesis appears to us a title too honourable for the crude guessings to which we allude.
noun honourables
- UK standard spelling of honorable. So she invites her father and sister to a second day's dinner (if those sides, or ontrys, as she calls 'em, weren't served yesterday, I'm d—d), and to meet City folks and littery men, and keeps the Earls and the Ladies, and the Honourables to herself.
Honourable²
adjective
- Alternative letter-case form of honourable
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: honorable, worthy, upstanding, noble, revered, moral, venerable, august, time-honored, ethical, right, time-honoured, laureate, solid, honoured, honored
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