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Honorably

Honorably \Hon"or*a*bly\, adv.

  1. In an honorable manner; in a manner showing, or consistent with, honor.

    The reverend abbot . . . honorably received him.
    --Shak.

    Why did I not more honorably starve?
    --Dryden.

  2. Decently; becomingly. [Obs.] ``Do this message honorably.''
    --Shak.

    Syn: Magnanimously; generously; nobly; worthily; justly; equitably; fairly; reputably.

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honorably

adv. (alternative spelling of honourably English)

WordNet
honorably
  1. adv. in an honorable manner; "he acted honorably" [syn: uprightly] [ant: dishonorably]

  2. with honor; "he was honorably discharged after many years fo service" [syn: honourably] [ant: dishonorably]

Usage examples of "honorably".

June 15th, abowt 5 of the clok cam the Polonian Prince Lord Albert Lasky down from Bissham, where he had lodged the night before, being returned from Oxford whither he had gon of purpose to see the universityes, wher he was very honorably used and enterteyned.

He could not honorably accept, not as long as he was attached to the Chiss Expansionary Defense.

Chiao Tai, because my real family name is well and honorably known in a certain part of the empire.

At the period of our history, the solicitors frequently sought the judge with the request that he would appoint an agent whom they proposed to him, --a man, as they said, to whom the affairs of the bankrupt were well-known, who would know how to reconcile the interests of the whole body of creditors with those of a man honorably overtaken by misfortune.

To the credit of all of the enlisted men of the Regular Army referred to, who received commissions in the volunteer service, all served honorably and were mustered out without bringing any scandal of any sort upon the service.

Though the young lady has behaved foolishly-even ungraciously, one might say-you, yourself, Colonel, have behaved as honorably as one would expect of the hero of the Potcher War.

Philosophical Contest which had taken place between the Friars of the Frari and the Friars of the Servi, the victory had been won by Fra Paolo Sarpi, of the Servi, who had honorably triumphed through his vast understanding of the wisdom of the Fathers of the Church.

The wounded shishi were allowed to die honorably without further pain.

Having no great issues with which to identify themselves, and upon which they could openly and honorably contend for the approval of the nation, their only means for securing their respective private ends lay in secretly overreaching and supplanting each other.

He was a great warrior-chieftain of the Chatti and died honorably in battle against Rome.

Ulydia, the first place of all Hibernia which thou didst convert, hath the Lord provided that thou shalt die, and that in the city of Dunum thou shall be honorably buried.

Wanting to reward many nobles and knights who had been released from their imprisonment, he gave them over in matrimony to maidens of high station, all of them servants of the empress and the princess, and he also gave them large estates so they could live out their lives honorably.

J-B Loys was a Marseillais lawyer and merchant who had denounced his own two brothers as royalists and who had been honorably wounded in the attack on the Tuileries.

June 15th, abowt 5 of the clok cam the Polonian Prince Lord Albert Lasky down from Bissham, where he had lodged the night before, being returned from Oxford whither he had gon of purpose to see the universityes, wher he was very honorably used and enterteyned.

Once married to a much-revered older warrior and friend of Wetara-sharo, then chief of the tribe, she had borne three sons, of whom the first had married into another branch of the tribe, the second had died honorably in a skirmish with the Sioux, and the third still lived among the Skidi Pawnee.