honour
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English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
honour (countable and uncountable, plural honours)
- British spelling, Canadian spelling, South African spelling, Commonwealth of Nations, and Ireland standard spelling of honor.
- 1591, William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene i]:
- Noble she is, but if she have forgot
Honour and virtue, and convers'd with such
As, like to pitch, defile nobility,
I banish her my bed and company.
- 1667, John Milton, “Book 4”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], OCLC 228722708; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554:
- Godlike erect, with native honour clad.
- 1902, Richard Francis Weymouth, Translation of the New Testament of the Bible, Book 60, 1 Peter 2:4:
- Come to Him, the ever-living Stone, rejected indeed by men as worthless, but in God's esteem chosen and held in honour.
- 2022 January 12, Benedict le Vay, “The heroes of Soham...”, in RAIL, number 948, page 43:
- In the following month, driver Ben Gimbert and fireman Jim Nightall (posthumously) were awarded the George Cross, the highest honour the King could give civilians.
Antonyms[edit]
Derived terms[edit]
- dishonourable
- honorary, (honourary, arch.)
- honorific, (honourific, nonstandard)
- honourable
Related terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
honour — see honor
Verb[edit]
honour (third-person singular simple present honours, present participle honouring, simple past and past participle honoured)
- British spelling, Canadian spelling, Commonwealth of Nations, and Ireland standard spelling of honor.
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
honour — see honor
References[edit]
- “honour”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
Middle English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
honour (plural honours)
Descendants[edit]
References[edit]
p. 1, Arthur; A Short Sketch of his Life and History in English Verse of the First Half of the Fifteenth Century, Frederick Furnivall ed. EETS. Trübner & Co.: London. 1864.
Old French[edit]
Noun[edit]
honour m (oblique plural honours, nominative singular honours, nominative plural honour)
- Late Anglo-Norman spelling of honur
- […] prierent au roi qe mesme le cont purroit estre restorez a ses noun et honour de marquys queux il avoit pardevant.
- […] prayed to the king that even the count could be restored to his name and his honour of marquee that he had before
- […] prierent au roi qe mesme le cont purroit estre restorez a ses noun et honour de marquys queux il avoit pardevant.
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