Definitions

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  • noun A state or condition or being honourable.

Etymologies

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c. 1827 honourable +‎ -ity

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Examples

  • I am 21 & I handle myself with far more maturity, open mindedness, human decency, respect, humanity & honourability than you ever could, will or would. on June 17, 2007 at 2: 55 pm | Reply andy s

    Anarchy In The Uk « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2007

  • Commune, had seen everything, no doubt, of what men are capable in the pursuit of their desires or in the extremity of their distress, for love, for money, and even for honour; and in her precarious connection with the very highest spheres she had kept her own honourability unscathed while she had lost all her prejudices.

    The Arrow of Gold 2006

  • The legitimacy of local government structures was measured according to their perceived fairness, effectiveness, transparency, strength and honourability, said the HSRC.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1997

  • She had passed through the Empire, she had lived through a siege, had rubbed shoulders with the Commune, had seen everything, no doubt, of what men are capable in the pursuit of their desires or in the extremity of their distress, for love, for money, and even for honour; and in her precarious connection with the very highest spheres she had kept her own honourability unscathed while she had lost all her prejudices.

    The Arrow of Gold : A Story Between Two Notes 1919

  • Empire, she had lived through a siege, had rubbed shoulders with the Commune, had seen everything, no doubt, of what men are capable in the pursuit of their desires or in the extremity of their distress, for love, for money, and even for honour; and in her precarious connection with the very highest spheres she had kept her own honourability unscathed while she had lost all her prejudices.

    The Arrow of Gold 1919

  • Madame Delacour's health was the subject of many disparaging remarks, in the course of which Mildred called into question the legitimacy of one of her children, and the honourability of Darres as a card-player.

    Celibates 1892

  • She had passed through the Empire, she had lived through a siege, had rubbed shoulders with the Commune, had seen everything, no doubt, of what men are capable in the pursuit of their desires or in the extremity of their distress, for love, for money, and even for honour; and in her precarious connection with the very highest spheres she had kept her own honourability unscathed while she had lost all her prejudices.

    The Arrow of Gold Joseph Conrad 1890

  • Lisa's honourability was an article of faith in the neighbourhood.

    The Fat and the Thin ��mile Zola 1871

  • Keep up the honourability, and don't sink to a fool's level.

    small dead animals Kate 2010

  • Keep up the honourability, and don't sink to a fool's level.

    small dead animals Kate 2010

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