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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

honourworthy en · ADJ

Etymology

From honour + -worthy.

Meanings

  1. Worthy of or deserving honour; honourable.
    • Where is our highly honourworthy salutable spouse-founderess? 1939 May 4, James Joyce, Finnegans Wake, London: Faber and Faber Limited, →OCLC; republished London: Faber & Faber Limited, 1960, →OCLC, part II, page 244:
    • I trusted that I might have had other glad meetings and pleasant communings with my honoured and honourworthy father in this world, but it was not so appointed. 1882, James Anthony Froude, Thomas Carlyle: A History of the First Forty Years of His Life, 1795–1835 […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
honorworthy US, alternative lexicographic
honor worthy US, alternative lexicographic
most honourworthy Degree=Sup lexicographic
honour-worthy alternative lexicographic
honour worthy alternative lexicographic
honor-worthy US, alternative lexicographic
more honourworthy Degree=Cmp lexicographic

Antonyms

dishonourworthy