0 honest and fair, or deserving praise and respect:
an honourable person
1 a title used before the name of some government officials, and in the UK before the names of some people of high social rank:
the Honourable Andrew Robinson
the Honorable Daniel P. Moynihan of New York
The integrity of his ' faith ' was central to a soldier's, as to a gentleman's, sense of himself as honourable.
It is of course honourable for a researcher to keep personal opinions at bay, but that is simply not completely possible.
If he'd said 'to me and my honourable friends', he might have got away with it.
To have too many animals from herds outside the lineage is, however, not an honourable situation regardless of the herd's size.
The more honourable course also has implicit in it the concept of masculinity upheld by the male populace.
However, such an altruistic and honourable motive alone could hardly stand the scrutiny of the various foreign audiences.
As meticulously courteous as he was logical, he suffered in a world where not all were as honourable in those respects as he was.
Schaeffer was not the last to accept this point, despite having honourable conscientious problems about it.
