Definition of Honoured

1. Adjective. Respected, having received honour. ¹

2. Verb. (past of honour) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Honoured

1. honour [v] - See also: honour

Lexicographical Neighbors of Honoured

honostyled
honour
honour'd
honour killing
honour killings
honour roll
honour rolls
honour system
honourabilities
honourability
honourable
honourableness
honourably
honourarium
honourary
honoured (current term)
honouree
honourees
honourer
honourers
honourest
honoureth
honourific
honouring
honourless
honourous
honours
honours degree
honours list
honourworthy

Literary usage of Honoured

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1870)
"THE Paris Correspondent of a contemporary mentioned, the other day, that the EMPEROR OP THE FRENCH had " honoured the races," that is to say, had attended ..."

2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"Besides the saints mentioned above and some others, bishops of Nancy and Toul, the following are honoured in a special manner in the Diocese of St-Die; ..."

3. A Treatise on the Law of Bills of Exchange, Promissory Notes, Bank-notes and by John Barnard Byles, Maurice Barnard Byles, Walter John Barnard Byles (1899)
"And,, in general, though the drawer had no effects in the hands of the drawee, yet if he had any reasonable expectation that the bill would be honoured, ..."

4. The Novels of Jane Austen by Jane Austen (1892)
"... they could not be necessary ; and it was not till Easter-day, almost a week after the gentlemen's arrival, that they were honoured by such an attention, ..."

5. The Republic of Plato by Plato, Benjamin Jowett (1881)
"He shall be honoured with sacrifices, and be worshipped as a god if the Pythian oracle approves; and at any rate, he shall be revered as a man. ..."

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