honorable
/ˈɑn.ə.ɹəbl̩/ adjetivo B2En español: honorable, honrable
- Behaving in a manner that shows honor; decent, having integrity.
- Worthy of respect; respectable.
- Complying with cultural rules regarding honor; not provoking shame or disgrace. · That culture considered it no disgrace to be defeated in honorable combat.
- A courtesy title, given in Britain and the Commonwealth to a cabinet minister, minister of state, or senator, and in the United States to the president, vice president, congresspeople, state governors and legislators, and mayors.
- A courtesy title, given in the United Kingdom to all sons and daughters of viscounts and barons and to the younger sons of earls.
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“And a first-rate seaman, one who had seen long and honorable service, as became a man charged with the interests of a house so important as that of Morrel & Son,” replied Danglars.
“Oh, you do not know what is seventeen months in prison!—seventeen ages rather, especially to a man who, like me, had arrived at the summit of his ambition—to a man, who, like me, was on the point of marrying a woman he adored, who saw an honorable career opened before him, and who loses all in an instant—who sees his prospects destroyed, and is ignorant of the fate of his affianced wife, and whether his aged father be still living!
But Dantès was so honorable and true in his own nature, that he believed everybody’s professions of friendship.
“Yes,” continued Caderousse, “so it is; after five-and-twenty years of labor, after having acquired a most honorable name in the trade of Marseilles, M.
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