Definition of "honourable" []

• Alternative form of honorable. (adjective)

Wiktionary.org : Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License

• "Not many MPs are given the title honourable these days."
• "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."
• "They defended teeth and even claws, which they described as honourable weapons of immemorial antiquity."