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HONOURABLE

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honourable adjectiv

1. care face onoare / cinste, de onoare, de cinste.

2. onorabil, respectabil, cinstit, cumsecade.

3. nobil, de viţă; onorat, cu vază.

4. Honourable titlu dat în Anglia copiilor nobililor de un anumit rang, deputaţilor în Camera Comunelor, primarilor etc.;

(parl.) the honourable gentleman domnul deputat, distinsul meu coleg (formulă întrebuinţată pentru a desemna în Anglia un membru al Camerei Comunelor şi în S.U.A. un membru al Congresului);

Right Honourable titlu al membrilor Consiliului privat, al membrilor Camerei lorzilor, al fiilor mai mari şi al tuturor fiicelor acestora, al prirnarilor unor oraşe ca Londra şi Dublin etc.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

In short, I would have done anything in an honourable way rather than give Mrs. Crupp offence; and she was the terror of my life.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

It is natural, and it is honourable.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

He said, the friendship between you and him was so well known to the world, that perhaps the most honourable board might think him partial; however, in obedience to the command he had received, he would freely offer his sentiments.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, de Jonathan Swift)

Mrs. Grant was of consequence: her good-nature had honourable mention; her taste and her time were considered; her presence was wanted; she was sought for, and attended, and praised; and Fanny was at first in some danger of envying her the character she had accepted.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

Part of every winter she had been used to spend in Bath; but Bristol was her home, the very heart of Bristol; for though the father and mother had died some years ago, an uncle remained—in the law line—nothing more distinctly honourable was hazarded of him, than that he was in the law line; and with him the daughter had lived.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

She was too indolent even to accept a mother's gratification in witnessing their success and enjoyment at the expense of any personal trouble, and the charge was made over to her sister, who desired nothing better than a post of such honourable representation, and very thoroughly relished the means it afforded her of mixing in society without having horses to hire.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

We have no reason to doubt, Mr. Copperfield, that you are a young gentleman possessed of good qualities and honourable character; or that you have an affection—or are fully persuaded that you have an affection—for our niece.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

It was a long, well-written letter, giving the particulars of his journey and of his feelings, expressing all the affection, gratitude, and respect which was natural and honourable, and describing every thing exterior and local that could be supposed attractive, with spirit and precision.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

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