Word Finder - honour

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Recognition of importance or value; respect; veneration (of someone, usually for being morally upright or successful)

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The crowds gave the returning general much honor and praise.

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The state of being morally upright, honest, noble, virtuous, and magnanimous; excellence of character; the perception of such a state; favourable reputation; dignity

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He was a most perfect knight, for he had great honor and chivalry.

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A token of praise or respect; something that represents praiseworthiness or respect, such as a prize or award given by the state to a citizen

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Audie Murphy received many honors, such as the Distinguished Service Cross.

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A privilege

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I had the honour of dining with the ambassador.

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(in the plural) the privilege of going first

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I'll let you have the honours, Bob—go ahead.

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A cause of respect and fame; a glory; an excellency; an ornament.

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He is an honour to his nation.

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(feudal law) a seigniory or lordship held of the king, on which other lordships and manors depended

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The center point of the upper half of an armorial escutcheon (compare honour point)

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In bridge, an ace, king, queen, jack, or ten especially of the trump suit. In some other games, an ace, king, queen or jack.

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(in the plural) (courses for) an honours degree: a university qualification of the highest rank

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At university I took honours in modern history.

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To think of highly, to respect highly; to show respect for; to recognise the importance or spiritual value of

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The freedom fighters will be forever remembered and honored by the people.

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To conform to, abide by, act in accordance with (an agreement, treaty, promise, request, or the like)

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I trusted you, but you have not honored your promise.

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To confer (bestow) an honour or privilege upon (someone)

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Ten members of the profession were honored at the ceremony.

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To make payment in respect of (a cheque, banker's draft, etc.)

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I'm sorry Sir, but the bank did not honour your cheque.

His recall was greatly to his honour.

Even in India we are told that he was held in honour by the native kings who took his farthest provinces in possession.

There is a statue in his honour on the Grand Place.

Temples in his honour are frequent throughout India.

The queen wished to bury him at the feet of the Swedish kings, and to raise a costly mausoleum in his honour; but these plans were overruled, and a plain monument in the Catholic cemetery was all that marked the place of his rest.

And so Yahweh's honour was compromised.

The 15th century has the honour of composing the great commentary on the text of the Canon, grouping around it all that theory had imagined, and all that practice had observed.

The honour was later transferred to the discoverer himself, and the island is now known as Tasmania.

He received the cross of the Legion of Honour in 1862.

Two fairs are held in Nola, on the 14th of June and the 12th of November; and the 26th of July is devoted to a great festival in honour of St Paulinus, one of the early bishops of the city, who invented the church bell (campana, taking its name from Campania).

Scholars were held in honour in those days by princes and people, and Ben-Sira frankly adduces this fact as one of the great advantages of the pursuit of wisdom.

It was to the martyrs that the Church first began to pay special honour.

When he had already achieved some important successes over Jugurtha (q.v.), in 107 he was elected consul for the first time (an almost unheard-of honour for a "new man"), his popularity with the army and people being sufficient to bear down all opposition.

Side by side with them there continued to exist the Legion of Honour.

Titles of honour, offices of trust or relating to the administration of justice, and pensions granted by the crown for military services are also inalienable.

In 1882, on account of his great services in connexion with the Bavarian National Exhibition of Nuremberg, the order of the crown of Bavaria was conferred upon him, carrying with it the honour of nobility.

In his later years his small alert figure was one of the most distinguished in the society of Berlin, and every honour open to a man of letters was conferred upon him.

In this year Paxton received the honour of knighthood.

The great bronze head of Augustus Caesar, now in the British Museum, is one of the trophies of this excavation, and is very interesting as being either a trophy of war carried off perhaps from Syene, or was actually set up at Meroe by the independent native ruler in honour of the Emperor.

The name of "Clemency Canning," which was applied to him during the heated animosities of the moment, has since become a title of honour.

In Egypt and in Babylon he appeared as the restorer of the native religions to honour after the unsympathetic rule of the Persians.

The prophet and his princely patrons will be accorded special honour.

Others are Bootham Bar, the main entrance from the N., also having a Norman arch; Monk Bar (N.E.), formerly called Goodramgate, but renamed in honour of General Monk, and Walmgate Bar, of the time of Edward I., retaining the barbican repaired in 1648.

The church erected by him in honour of St Felix in the 4th century is extant in part.

Speaking next day at a luncheon given in his honour, answering critics who alleged that with more time and patience on the part of Great Britain war might have been avoided, he asserted that what they were asked to "conciliate" was "panoplied hatred, insensate ambition, invincible ignorance."

In 1762, by an act of the assembly, a town was laid out including Cross Creek, and was named Campbelltown (or "Campbeltown"); but in 1784, when Lafayette visited the town, its name was changed in his honour to Fayetteville, though the name Cross Creek continued to be used locally for many years.

In 1840 the name Sucre was adopted in honour of the patriot commander who won the last decisive battle of the war, and then became the first president of Bolivia.

The honour was declined, and Mahommed took a bride from the house of Zulfikar.

But the sultan could not bend his pride to suffer foreign intervention in a matter that touched his honour, and the return of Napoleon from Elba threw the Eastern Question into the background.

It was named by Professor Collett in honour of its discoverer, who described it as living on the highest parts of the mountains, in the densest scrub and most inaccessible places.

In 1906 a statue in his honour was erected at Pamiers, "la reparation d'un long oubli."

Its name was given to it in honour of General Jeffrey Amherst (1717-1797).

It is the seat of Blinn Memorial College (German Methodist Episcopal), opened as "Mission Institute" in 1883, and renamed in 1889 in honour of the Rev. Christian Blinn, of New York, a liberal benefactor; of Brenham Evangelical Lutheran College, and of a German-American institute (1898).

On the latter tract a military post was established by Lieut.-Colonel Henry Leavenworth (1783-1834) in 1819, and in the following year the construction was begun of a fort at first named Fort St Anthony but renamed Fort Snelling in 1824 (two years after its completion) in honour of its builder and commander Colonel Josiah Snelling (1782-1829).

In 1819 Michigan Territory was extended westward to the Mississippi river, and in 1820 General Lewis Cass, its governor, conducted an exploring expedition in search of the source of the Mississippi, which he was satisfied was in the body of water named Lake Cass in his honour.

Adams was incorporated in 1778, and was named in honour of Samuel Adams, the revolutionary leader.

This brilliant exploit earned him his captain's commission and a sword of honour from Congress.

Gordon, a Dutch officer -of Scottish extraction, who commanded the garrison at Cape Town, reached the river in its middle course at the spot indicated by Sparrman and named it the Orange in honour of the prince of Orange.

By direction of Talleyrand, then minister for foreign affairs, the French commissary repaired in state to the old man's residence in Turin, to congratulate him on the merits of his son, whom they declared "to have done honour to mankind by his genius, and whom Piedmont was proud to have produced, and France to possess."

In 1804 he became Minister; in 1807 he was named count, and in 1809 he received the title of duc de Bassano, an honour which marked the sense entertained by Napoleon of his strenuous toil, especially in connexion with the diplomatic negotiations and treaties of this period.

He shares with Daru the honour of being the hardest worker and most devoted supporter in Napoleon's service; but it has generally been considered that he carried devotion to the length of servility, and thus often compromised the real interests of France.

In 1686 Admiral Francesco Lazeano, who made further explorations, renamed them the Carolines in honour of Charles II.

This treaty contains reservations of all questions involving the vital interests, the independence or the honour of the contracting parties.

Again, we may ask, what is meant by the phrase " national honour "?

It was thought at one time that the honour of a nation could only be vindicated by war, though all that had happened was the slighting of its flag, or of its accredited representative, during some sudden ebullition of local feeling.

It is now simply a title of honour and one, moreover, the social value of which differs enormously, not only in the different European countries, but within the limits of the same country.

Since the naval revolt of 1893-1894 the name of the capital of Santa Catharina has been changed from Desterro to Florianopolis in honour of President Floriano Peixoto.

Dom Pedro II.," in honour of the sovereign who encouraged its construction.

She appointed panegyrics to be composed in his honour, and offered valuable prizes for the best oratorical and tragic compositions.

The law of course was clear that the "punctilio which swordsmen falsely do call honour" was no excuse for wilful murder.