Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Usage examples of "honourable mention".
I esteem the invention, or at least the refinement of prologues, to have been owing to these younger proficients, of whom Terence makes frequent and honourable mention, under the name of malevoli.
It would have taken a medal at any European fair, and would have got an honourable mention even at Chicago if it had been saved up.
If it was accidental I don't think you ought to get more than honourable mention.
I called her my 'glumdalclitch', or 'little nurse': and I should be guilty of great ingratitude if I omitted this honourable mention of her care and affection towards me, which I heartily wish it lay in my power to requite as she deserves, instead of being the innocent but unhappy instrument of her disgrace, as I have too much reason to fear.