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honourability, honor- rare.|ɒnərəˈbɪlɪtɪ|
In 5 honourablyte, honurabilite.
[a. OF. honorablete (13th c.) from honorable: subseq. conformed in Fr. and Eng. to the ordinary type of ns. from L. -bilitās: see -ability.]
The quality of being honourable, honourableness; pl. things that are honourable, honours.
c1400tr. Secreta Secret., Gov. Lordsh. (E.E.T.S.) 103 Þat he be of greet corage yn purpos, and louynge honurabilite. Ibid. 107 Wys and willynge, honourablyte vnderstondynge, lele, and eschewand oþer fleand all velanye and blame. 1708Motteux Rabelais (1737) V. 233 What tho' Honorabilities it offers. 1895Pall Mall Mag. VII. 272 To appreciate Lowe's..‘profound honourability’, as Dr. Richard Congreve calls it. |