honourable
adjective
possessing or characterized by high principles
honourableness
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a word derived from
honourable.
Example Sentences
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Oscar Wilde by pointing his derisive finger at what the gross intelligence of our commercial mob calls the "honourableness of work" has done more to clear our minds of cant than many revolutionary speeches.
From Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations by John Cowper Powys
And then come more quotations from Benedick, as well as an annexation of Touchstone’s remark about the honourableness of the forehead of a married man.
From By-ways in Book-land Short Essays on Literary Subjects by William Davenport Adams
Was he not, then, justified in living his own life in the best possible way, atoning for the meagreness of his talent by the honourableness of his quest?
From Roads from Rome by Anne C. E. (Anne Crosby Emery) Allinson
And so, if a happy life is discerned by its honourableness, then what is honourable ought to be considered the sole 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
And in good sooth, ’twill lack a mint of money spent thereon ere the house be meet for any, let be a gentleman and gentlewoman of your honourableness.
From Robin Tremayne A Story of the Marian Persecution by Emily Sarah Holt
