honourable

Not many MPs are given the title honourable these days.

British Blogs 2010

Magnificence is an attribute of expenditures of the kind which we call honourable, e.g. those connected with the gods-votive offerings, buildings, and sacrifices-and similarly with any form of religious worship, and all those that are proper objects of public-spirited ambition, as when people think they ought to equip a chorus or a trireme, or entertain the city, in a brilliant way.

The Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle 2002

They defended teeth and even claws, which they described as honourable weapons of immemorial antiquity.

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (1874-1965) 1989

They may in time do something that shall make their new title honourable, but at present they are bitterly ashamed, and the man who calls them

Soldier Stories Rudyard Kipling 1900

There was one ship, in particular, to which they called his honourable attention.

Korea's Fight for Freedom 1900

Magnificence is an attribute of expenditures of the kind which we call honourable, e.g. those connected with the gods-votive offerings, buildings, and sacrifices-and similarly with any form of religious worship, and all those that are proper objects of public-spirited ambition, as when people think they ought to equip a chorus or a trireme, or entertain the city, in a brilliant way.

The NICOMACHEAN ETHICS Aristotle 1865

But with our private fortune, is it worthwhile to purchase at so high a rate a title honourable in itself, but which I must share with every fellow that can lay out 1500 pounds?

Gibbon James Cotter Morison 1860

There are cases of expenditure which we call honourable, such as are dedicatory offerings to the gods, and the furnishing their temples, and sacrifices, and in like manner everything that has reference to the Deity, and all such public matters as are objects of honourable ambition, as when men think in any case that it is their duty to furnish a chorus for the stage splendidly, or fit out and maintain a trireme, or give a general public feast.

Ethics 384 BC-322 BC Aristotle

I also understand that MPs are allegedly honourable people and do honourable things, always behave in honourable ways befitting their roles as honourable people and would never engage in anything … … … … … … shall we say underhand or devious.

Superbug « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2008

There is no single way she would win honourable and with dignity.

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