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n. - The quality of deserving respect.

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  • “Behold, I am disease,” saith the evil deed: that is its honourableness.
  • That said, there is some curious aspect to the “honourableness” premium public employees pay.
  • “The wages of labour vary with the ease or hardship, the cleanliness or dirtiness, the honourableness or dishonourableness of the employment.”
  • But before men who have been properly brought up we shall dwell chiefly on praise and honourableness, and speak chiefly of those kinds of virtues which are concerned in...
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