honourable
adjective
possessing or characterized by high principles
honourableness
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a word derived from
honourable.
Example Sentences
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Diodorus, in his definition, added to the same honourableness, freedom from pain.
From The Academic Questions, Treatise De Finibus, and Tusculan Disputations, of M.T. Cicero, With a Sketch of the Greek Philosophers Mentioned by Cicero by Charles Duke Yonge
But Zeno laid it down that that honourableness which arises from conformity to nature is the chief good.
From The Academic Questions, Treatise De Finibus, and Tusculan Disputations, of M.T. Cicero, With a Sketch of the Greek Philosophers Mentioned by Cicero by Charles Duke Yonge
Or, may be, it might please your honourableness to turn your goodly eyes upon the clock, and behold whether it be meet time for a decent maid to come home of a feast-day even?
From For the Master's Sake A Story of the Days of Queen Mary by Horace Petherick
But men who are not perfect, though endued with admirable talents and dispositions, are often excited by glory, which has the form and likeness of honourableness.
From The Academic Questions, Treatise De Finibus, and Tusculan Disputations, of M.T. Cicero, With a Sketch of the Greek Philosophers Mentioned by Cicero by Charles Duke Yonge
Surely common sense, temperance, honest work, honourableness, fidelity, were good fruits of human life and of useful citizenship.
From Roads from Rome by Anne C. E. (Anne Crosby Emery) Allinson
