honourableness en · NOUN
Etymology
Etymology tree English honourable Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English honourableness From honourable + -ness.
Meanings
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(alt-of, alternative, uncountable) Alternative spelling of honorableness.
alt of honorableness
He had his doubts about Crake’s honourableness, intellectual or otherwise. He knew a bit more about Crake than his mother did.
2003, Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake, Virago Press (2013), page 80: