What is "honours"

Usage examples of "honours".

Although no nobility of birth, no honours, no services to the State paved the way for any man to sovereign power, still it was their consulships, their decemvirates, the honours achieved by them and their ancestors and the splendour of their families that raised the ambitions of the Claudii and the Cassii to an impious height.

Gil and Kat said their Great Captain had already achieved many battle honours but it wanted one more significant honour to add to a career that had spanned over a hundred human-length years.

No student in his year had been given a highest honours degree and he had been one of only three Firsts.

Of course, the Genessee and the Arnpahoe would share any honours with the KTTS.

Mec top honours - yes, you did get top honours today which is exactly why you got snatched from the quiet of Deneb and Grandma's cottage and thrust into this situation without a chance for a day's rest - who's assigned along with me to help you penetrate the interior of the Refugee - That's her official designation, bra.

I know you had a little look round the frige 'Through a glass darkly, bra, since the inside was still fogged with gas 'Since you're so full of engineering honours, you get to hunt for the engine room .

Asia took honours, you know, in mechanical engineering, just two points below Rojer.

Since Coaxtl honours me by speaking to me, I should remain to pass messages between her and my elders and betters.

Fortunately, honours were even between Jemmy and Sheledon for catchy tunes.

Appius Claudius was keenly alive to the chance that he might not be re-elected, in spite of his age and the honours he had enjoyed.

The decemvirs anticipated this resolve by hastily burying him with military honours at the cost of the State.

I had enough of honours, enough and more than enough of life, I ought to have died in my third consulship.

The leaders of the House declared his speech to be worthy of the position he held as consul, worthy of the many consulships he had previously held, worthy of his whole life, rich as it was in honours, many actually enjoyed, many more deserved.

In one of these laws we demand the right of intermarriage, a right usually granted to neighbours and foreigners - indeed we have granted citizenship, which is more than intermarriage, even to a conquered enemy - in the other we are bringing forward nothing new, but simply demanding back what belongs to the people and claiming that the Roman people should confer its honours on whom it will.

If any one is going to obstruct these measures, you may talk about wars and exaggerate them by rumour, no one is going to give in his name, no one is going to take up arms, no one is going to fight for domineering masters with whom they have in public life no partnership in honours, and in private life no right of intermarriage.