Crossword clues for honour
honour
- Order of the British Empire, e.g
- Respect refusal to be constrained by time
- Personal integrity
- Hold in respect
- Time to accept running award
- Victoria Cross, e.g
- Royal award
- Esteem, abroad
- British distinction
- Becoming a British knight, say
- Small tart
- Awfully good nurse here achieves academic success
- Hero undergoes changes, getting university recognition
- O.B.E., for one
- Order of the British Empire, e.g.
- Waugh's "Sword of ___" trilogy
- The state of being honored
- A tangible symbol signifying approval or distinction
- The quality of being honorable and having a good name
- A woman's virtue or chastity
- Lovelace's greater love
- What R. Lovelace loved
- Integrity, English style
- Lovelace's first love
- Great respect or esteem
- Maybe The Queen is on in sixty minutes
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Honor \Hon"or\ ([o^]n"[~e]r), n. [OE. honor, honour, onour, onur, OF. honor, onor, honur, onur, honour, onour, F. honneur, fr. L. honor, honos.] [Written also honour.]
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Esteem due or paid to worth; high estimation; respect; consideration; reverence; veneration; manifestation of respect or reverence.
A prophet is not without honor, save in his own country.
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That which rightfully attracts esteem, respect, or consideration; self-respect; dignity; courage; fidelity; especially, excellence of character; high moral worth; virtue; nobleness; specif., in men, integrity; uprightness; trustworthness; in women, purity; chastity.
If she have forgot Honor and virtue.
--Shak.Godlike erect, with native honor clad.
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A nice sense of what is right, just, and true, with course of life correspondent thereto; strict conformity to the duty imposed by conscience, position, or privilege.
Say, what is honor? 'T is the finest sense Of justice which the human mind can frame, Intent each lurking frailty to disclaim, And guard the way of life from all offense Suffered or done.
--Wordsworth.I could not love thee, dear, so much, Loved I not honor more.
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That to which esteem or consideration is paid; distinguished position; high rank. ``Restored me to my honors.''
--Shak.I have given thee . . . both riches, and honor.
--1 Kings iii. 13.Thou art clothed with honor and majesty.
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Fame; reputation; credit.
Some in theiractions do woo, and affect honor and reputation.
--Bacon.If my honor is meant anything distinct from conscience, 't is no more than a regard to the censure and esteem of the world.
--Rogers. A token of esteem paid to worth; a mark of respect; a ceremonial sign of consideration; as, he wore an honor on his breast; military honors; civil honors. ``Their funeral honors.''
--Dryden.A cause of respect and fame; a glory; an excellency; an ornament; as, he is an honor to his nation.
A title applied to the holders of certain honorable civil offices, or to persons of rank; as, His Honor the Mayor. See Note under Honorable.
(Feud. Law) A seigniory or lordship held of the king, on which other lordships and manors depended.
--Cowell.pl. Academic or university prizes or distinctions; as, honors in classics.
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pl. (Whist) The ace, king, queen, and jack of trumps. The ten and nine are sometimes called Dutch honors.
--R. A. Proctor.Affair of honor, a dispute to be decided by a duel, or the duel itself.
Court of honor, a court or tribunal to investigate and decide questions relating to points of honor; as a court of chivalry, or a military court to investigate acts or omissions which are unofficerlike or ungentlemanly in their nature.
Debt of honor, a debt contracted by a verbal promise, or by betting or gambling, considered more binding than if recoverable by law.
Honor bright! An assurance of truth or fidelity. [Colloq.]
Honor court (Feudal Law), one held in an honor or seignory.
Honor point. (Her.) See Escutcheon.
Honors of war (Mil.), distinctions granted to a vanquished enemy, as of marching out from a camp or town armed, and with colors flying.
Law of honor or Code of honor, certain rules by which social intercourse is regulated among persons of fashion, and which are founded on a regard to reputation.
--Paley.Maid of honor, a lady of rank, whose duty it is to attend the queen when she appears in public.
On one's honor, on the pledge of one's honor; as, the members of the House of Lords in Great Britain, are not under oath, but give their statements or verdicts on their honor.
Point of honor, a scruple or nice distinction in matters affecting one's honor; as, he raised a point of honor.
To do the honors, to bestow honor, as on a guest; to act as host or hostess at an entertainment. ``To do the honors and to give the word.''
--Pope.To do one honor, to confer distinction upon one.
To have the honor, to have the privilege or distinction.
Word of honor, an engagement confirmed by a pledge of honor.
honour \honour\ n. & v. Same as honor; -- chiefly British usage. [Brit.]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
chiefly British English spelling of honor; also see -or. Related: Honoured; honouring; honours.
Wiktionary
n. (standard spelling of honor from=British spelling from2=Canadian spelling from3=Irish, Australian, NZ, and South African English) vb. (standard spelling of honor from=British spelling from2=Canadian spelling from3=Irish, Australian, NZ, and South African English)
WordNet
v. bestow honor or rewards upon; "Today we honor our soldiers"; "The scout was rewarded for courageus action" [syn: honor, reward] [ant: dishonor]
show respect towards; "honor your parents!" [syn: respect, honor, abide by, observe] [ant: disrespect]
accept as pay; "we honor checks and drafts" [syn: honor] [ant: dishonor]
Wikipedia
Honour is a 1995 play by the Australian playwright Joanna Murray-Smith.
It tells the familiar tale of a middle aged man, George, who leaves his wife, Honor, and their 24-year-old daughter, Sophie, for a relationship with a much younger woman by the name of Claudia.
It was first performed in Melbourne on 14 November 1995 and has since been performed in more than three dozen countries, including on Broadway and in the West End.
Honour (also honor in American English, see spelling differences) is an abstract concept entailing a perceived quality of worthiness and respectability that affects both the social standing and the self-evaluation of an individual or corporate body such as a family, school, regiment or nation. Accordingly, individuals (or corporate bodies) are assigned worth and stature based on the harmony of their actions with a specific code of honour, and the moral code of the society at large.
Dr. Samuel Johnson, in his A Dictionary of the English Language (1755), defined honour as having several senses, the first of which was " nobility of soul, magnanimity, and a scorn of meanness." This sort of honour derives from the perceived virtuous conduct and personal integrity of the person endowed with it. On the other hand, Johnson also defined honour in relationship to " reputation" and " fame"; to "privileges of rank or birth", and as "respect" of the kind which "places an individual socially and determines his right to precedence." This sort of honour is not so much a function of moral or ethical excellence, as it is a consequence of power. Finally, with respect to sexuality, honour has traditionally been associated with (or identical to) " chastity" or " virginity", or in case of married men and women, " fidelity". Some have argued that honour should be seen more as a rhetoric, or set of possible actions, than as a code.
In medieval England, an honour could consist of a great lordship, comprising dozens or hundreds of manors. Holders of honours (and the kings to whom they reverted by escheat) often attempted to preserve the integrity of an honour over time, administering its properties as a unit, maintaining inheritances together, etc.
The typical honour had properties scattered over several shires, intermingled with the properties of others. This was a specific policy of the Norman kings, to avoid establishing any one area under the control of a single lord. Usually, though, a more concentrated cluster existed somewhere. Here would lie the caput (head) of the honour, with a castle that gave its name to the honour and served as its administrative headquarters.
A lordship could consist of anything from a field or two to vast territories all over England. Thus the designation honour can distinguish the large lordship from the small. The term has particular usefulness for the eleventh and twelfth centuries, before the development of an extensive peerage hierarchy.
Honour is a contemporary thriller focusing on " honour killings".
Honour is an 1889 play by the German writer Hermann Sudermann. It tells the story of the conflicts and love affairs between two families, one wealthy and one poor. When the wealthy father has an affair with a daughter in the poor family, her brother challenges the rich man to a duel, only to be laughed off.
Usage examples of "honour".
Aurelia in Pistoja, to fall with tears at her feet, to be pardoned and absolved, to rise to the life of honour and respect once more.
To the painter I wrote that I felt that I had deserved the shameful insult he had given me by my great mistake in acceding to his request to honour him by staying in his house.
After breakfast I sent for mine host and ordered an excellent supper for five persons, feeling certain that Don Sancio, whom I expected in the evening, would not refuse to honour me by accepting my invitation, and with that idea I made up my mind to go without my dinner.
Sunday was a day for pleasure and not business he hoped I would honour them by passing the day at their pretty house on the Amstel, and they were delighted at my accepting their invitation.
I thanked him for doing Margarita the honour of accepting a cup of coffee from her hands, and begged him to take one with me, saying I would breakfast with him next morning.
If any complain of this breach of honour, I must tell them that I had made a mental reservation not to keep my promise, and those who are acquainted with the morality of the children of Ignatius will understand that I was completely at my ease.
He was a worthy man, fond of pleasure, a thorough-paced Epicurean, and had married an actress named Cochois, who had proved worthy of the honour he had laid on her.
I am so confident of my own innocence, and have such a perfect reliance upon the honour of your lordships, that I am not afraid to submit to judgment upon the evidence which has been adduced on the part of the prosecution.
On the twenty-fifth day of March the commissioner adjourned the parliament, after having, in a short speech, taken notice of the honour they had acquired in concluding an affair of such importance to their country.
The entry of the adjournment of the house immediately after its meeting on the previous day, out of respect to the memory of the deceased statesman, was an honour which would live for ever in the journals of that house, and an honour which was never before paid to a subject.
The Earl of Aberdeen and the whole Peelite section of the cabinet were believed to be too friendly to the czar, and adopting a policy unworthy of English greatness and of English honour.
I gave in, saying that I could not refuse anything to the adorable woman who had honoured me with the name of husband.
Raphael, by being employed in adulatory allegory, in honour of Princes, as is to be seen in the works of Rubens and Le Brun at Paris, artists of great talents, which they were led to misapply, through the supreme vanity of Louis the Fourteenth.
I will add with reference to myself, that these transactions show that, so far from being actuated by those motives of personal aggrandizement, with which I have been charged by persons of high station in another place, my object was, that others should occupy a post of honour, and that for myself I was willing to serve in any capacity, or without any official capacity, so as to enable the crown to carry on the government.
Professor von Bunge, whose name is honoured by all students of the action of drugs, has satisfied himself that alcoholism in the father is a great cause of incapacity to nurse in daughters.