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noun

Honorableness n.

The state of being honorable; eminence; distinction.

Conformity to the principles of honor, probity, or moral rectitude; fairness; uprightness; reputableness.

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Etymology of 'Honorableness'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Honorableness" Quotes from Famous Books

... immutable reality; it did not rise in a plain, and quietly drain its waters to the sea,—it came sheer down from above. He laid hold of some simple truth—the love of God, the Divine method of justification, the unchangeableness of human nature, the supremacy of conscience, the honorableness of all men; and having got this vividly before his mind, on he moved—the river rose at once, drawing everything ...

— Spare Hours • John Brown

... there still remained a trace of the cold passion that had seized him in the schoolhouse; it may have been that what Lawler had heard of Gary Warden was reflected in his gaze—a doubt of Warden's honorableness. Or perhaps in Lawler's face he observed signs which told him that before him stood a ...

— The Trail Horde • Charles Alden Seltzer

... translated into his character. If he works out his mathematical problems thoroughly, he not only becomes a mathematician, but becomes a thorough man. It is by constant and conscientious attention to daily duties that thoroughness and conscientiousness and honorableness are imbedded ...

— Addresses • Henry Drummond

... the man's character. It was just the kind of a man he was hunting for—a man that never believes in anybody's word or anybody's honorableness, because he ain't got none of his own. I reckon there's lots of people like that dervish. They swindle, right and left, but they always make the other person SEEM to swindle himself. They keep inside of the letter of the law all the time, and there ...

— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain