honourworthy

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Etymology[edit]

From honour +‎ -worthy.

Adjective[edit]

honourworthy (comparative honourworthier or more honourworthy, superlative honourworthiest or most honourworthy)

  1. Worthy of or deserving honour; honourable.
    Synonym: dishonourworthy
    • 1882, James Anthony Froude, Thomas Carlyle: A History of the First Forty Years of His Life, 1795–1835 [], volumes (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC:
      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.
    • 1939 May 4, James Joyce, Finnegans Wake, London: Faber and Faber Limited, →OCLC; republished London: Faber & Faber Limited, 1960, →OCLC, part II, page 244:
      Where is our highly honourworthy salutable spouse-founderess?