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honorand|ˈɒnərænd|
[ad. L. honōrand-us, gerundive of honōrāre honour v.]
Someone to be honoured, spec. with an academic honorary degree.
1950A. P. Herbert Independent Member lxxxiii. 478 The Honorands, the eight or nine distinguished persons who are to be voted Honorary Doctors. 1961M. Beadle These Ruins are Inhabited (1963) xii. 170 The American honorand at this June's Encaenia. 1966New Statesman 10 June 849/1 A kind of festschrift without an honorand. 1971Oxford Times 25 June 30/1 There was brilliant sunshine for the Encaenia... For the first time for eight years there was no woman in the procession of honorands. |