单词 | honourableness |
释义 | honourableness (once / 119387 pages) n WORD FAMILY honourable: dishonourable, honourableness, honourablest, honourably+/dishonour: dishonoured, dishonouring, dishonours/dishonourable: dishonourableness/honour: dishonour, honourable, honoured, honouring, honours USAGE EXAMPLESFirst, the wages of labour vary with the ease or hardship, the cleanliness or dirtiness, the honourableness or dishonourableness, of the employment. Garnier, Germain, An Inquiry Into the Nature and Caus...(2011) Will you take her word as surety for my honourableness, and tell me frankly all I may ask?' Waugh, Joseph Laing, Betty Grier(2011) In conflict with these notions are the democratic ideas of the honourableness of voluntary service by contract. Martineau, Harriet, How to Observe—Morals and Manners(2010) n the quality of deserving honor or respect; characterized by honor Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper honorableness dishonorableness, dishonourableness the quality of not deserving honor or respect venerability, venerableness the quality of deserving veneration grandeur, magnanimousness, nobility, noblenessthe quality of elevation of mind and exaltation of character or ideals or conduct reputability, respectabilityhonorableness by virtue of being respectable and having a good reputation high-mindedness, idealism, noble-mindednesselevated ideals or conduct; the quality of believing that ideals should be pursued sublimitynobility in thought or feeling or style decencythe quality of being polite and respectable righteousness adhering to moral principles |
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