Definition of Honorable

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Honorable

Worthy of honor; fit to be esteemed or regarded; estimable; illustrious.

High-minded; actuated by principles of honor, or a scrupulous regard to probity, rectitude, or reputation.

Proceeding from an upright and laudable cause, or directed to a just and proper end; not base; irreproachable; fair; as, an honorable motive.

Conferring honor, or produced by noble deeds.

Worthy of respect; regarded with esteem; to be commended; consistent with honor or rectitude.

Performed or accompanied with marks of honor, or with testimonies of esteem; an honorable burial.

Of reputable association or use; respectable.

An epithet of respect or distinction; as, the honorable Senate; the honorable gentleman.

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Honorable Quotations

The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery.
Thomas Jefferson

At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice.
Maya Angelou

Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.
Ronald Reagan

The one thing I want to leave my children is an honorable name.
Theodore Roosevelt

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
George Bernard Shaw

I never killed anybody, I never raped anybody, I never committed no crimes that weren't honorable.
Tupac Shakur

John's time and effort were, in the main, spent on pretty honorable stuff. As for the other side, well, nobody's perfect, nobody's Jesus. And look what they did to him.
Paul McCartney

In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Honorable Translations

honorable in German is ehrenwert
honorable in Latin is honestus, ingenuus
honorable in Spanish is honorable

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