Honourable

(US), Honorable

the. a title of respect placed before a name: employed before the names of various officials in the English-speaking world, as a courtesy title in Britain for the children of viscounts and barons and the younger sons of earls, and in Parliament by one member speaking of another

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This kind of rationalist and heroising language imbues these behaviours with a reasonableness and political honourableness that I have to say I find both ethnographically unconvincing and one that writes out, for example, the powerful influence of the role of socialisation in the creation of patterns of emotional experience in adults.

Rage, reason and the honourable cause: a reply to Cowlishaw

156-58) Rather like James Hogg's (self-)justified sinner, Siffredi dismisses doubts as to the honourableness of his proceeding:

Love, honour, and duty in James Thomson's Tancred and Sigismunda (1745)

First, the wages of labour vary with the ease or hardship, the cleanliness or dirtiness, the honourableness or dishonourableness of the employment.

Wage and employer changes over the life cycle

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