right honourable

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right honourable (not comparable)

  1. A courtesy title applied to a peer below the rank of marquess.
  2. A courtesy title applied to a privy counsellor, to the lord mayor of various cities, governor general, and to the prime minister of certain Commonwealth countries.
    • 1906, FE Smith, maiden speech to House of Commons, 12 Mar 1906:
      I have in honourable and right honourable gentlemen opposite an admirable example of how to cut the painter of a similar league, with the maximum of political advancement, and the minimum of fidelity to a founder.
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