Adjective : They were all honorable men. From Dictionary.com.
"honorableness" was when he defended Obama in the one town hall meeting w / that "Muslim" mumbling women …. From Wordnik.com. [WordPress.com News] Reference
Or does being a POW confer permanent honorableness to someone?. From Wordnik.com. [Mystery Deepens Around McCain Bundler] Reference
But something—a little worm of perverse honorableness gnawing at my heart or was it some other part of me?. From Wordnik.com. [Kalooki Nights] Reference
Myron, however, bowed low before Talena, in this perhaps saluting the loftiness and honorableness of her status, that of the free female. From Wordnik.com. [Magicians of Gor]
He obtained of them the command of an expedition whose destination was known to himself alone; assuring them of the honorableness and the success of the enterprise. From Wordnik.com. [Mosaics of Grecian History] Reference
To end this cycle of tension, it will take at least a gnereation, I think, where more enlightened parents and teachers can teach a new generation of the fundamental honorableness of each and every human being. From Wordnik.com. [The Politics of Fifth Grade: For Their Own Good] Reference
Friend (my Exalted Father-in-law) hath not related unto him the story of his son's misshapen members, August Father give of promise unto Dr. Ewing that if she can to make arrangements of honorableness with Exalted. From Wordnik.com. [Seven Maids of Far Cathay] Reference
And his words to Deveny and others had seemed to hint of a fairly high honorableness. From Wordnik.com. ['Drag' Harlan] Reference
But your acquaintances and enemies and teachers did, and even, in moments of intense honorableness, you reported yourself. From Wordnik.com. [Just Patty] Reference
Criminologically the influence of nurture on mankind is important if it can explain the development of morality, honorableness, and love of truth. From Wordnik.com. [Criminal Psychology: a manual for judges, practitioners, and students] Reference
It is by constant and conscientious attention to daily duties that thoroughness and conscientiousness and honorableness are imbedded in our beings. From Wordnik.com. [The Greatest Thing In the World and Other Addresses] Reference
But remember that you must study the moral qualities of these unfortunates: their hearts, the honorableness of their feelings; those are our guarantees. From Wordnik.com. [The Brotherhood of Consolation] Reference
Preserving the honorableness of the academic system seems to be a lead, although frankly exclude reimbursed ads for such a service seems a fragile response. From Wordnik.com. [Elections - fresh news by plazoo.com] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Sawyer Abroad] Reference
She must have found there an unquestionable assurance of the honorableness of their owner, for she permitted him to lay his palm upon her forehead and feel her pulse. From Wordnik.com. [The Son of Tarzan] Reference
We honorably only looked at the address, although it is allowed by the rules of honorableness to read post-cards that come to your house if you like, even if they are not for you. From Wordnik.com. [The Wouldbegoods] Reference
No matter what may be the moral uprightness of his life, the honorableness of his career, or the orthodoxy of his creed, if he exercises the function of loving the world, that defines his world -- he belongs to the. From Wordnik.com. [Natural Law in the Spiritual World] Reference
After serving the Empire for a very short time, Colonel Franchessini had become one of the most brilliant colonels of the Restoration; but in consequence of certain mists which had risen about the perfect honorableness of his character he had found himself obliged to send in his resignation, so that in 1830 he was fully prepared to devote himself in the most ardent manner to the dynasty of July. From Wordnik.com. [The Deputy of Arcis] Reference
You have cried your virtue and honorableness from the housetops, and, under the stress of your pleadings, hundreds of millions of dollars have been confided to you annually -- half the savings of the nation have been turned into your coffers, all because you insisted that you were honest beyond all other men, and that the dear ones left behind might rely on your generosity and integrity for their support. From Wordnik.com. [Frenzied Finance Vol. 1: The Crime of Amalgamated] Reference
"honorableness, firmness of character and great capability.". From Wordnik.com. [Letters]
That’s no use unless there is a certain inborn honorableness. From Wordnik.com. [Religion] Reference
A constant state of siege; but she had gone farther, and had held out a flag of truce, and declared her conviction of the honesty of his views and the honorableness of his intention. From Wordnik.com. [Bricks without Straw A Novel] Reference
"But being a man of such noble mind," 'twas said, "it may be that he would leave her to her freedom yet a few months, because, despite her stateliness, she is but young, and 'twould be like his honorableness to wish that she should see many men while she is free to choose, as she has never been before. From Wordnik.com. [A Lady of Quality] Reference
The more I dive into this matter of whaling, and push my researches up to the very spring-head of it so much the more am I impressed with its great honorableness and antiquity; and especially when I find so many great demi-gods and heroes, prophets of all sorts, who one way or other have shed distinction upon it, I am transported with the reflection that I myself belong, though but subordinately, to so emblazoned a fraternity. From Wordnik.com. [Moby Dick: or, the White Whale] Reference
The more I dive into this matter of whaling, and push my researches up to the very spring-head of it, so much the more am I impressed with its great honorableness and antiquity; and especially when I find so many great demi-gods and heroes, prophets of all sorts, who one way or other have shed distinction upon it, I am transported with the reflection that I myself belong, though but subordinately, to so emblazoned a fraternity. From Wordnik.com. [Moby-Dick, or, The Whale] Reference
Christianity, on the other hand, preached the honorableness of labor from the first (Thess. From Wordnik.com. [System der volkswirthschaft. English] Reference
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 into its course — “All thoughts, all passions, all desires, —. From Wordnik.com. [Spare Hours] Reference
"To the Emperor Charles V.: If liberty had been sooner granted me by my cousin the viceroy, I should not have delayed so long to do my duty towards you, according as the time and the circumstances in which I am placed require; having no other comfort under my misfortune than a reliance on your goodness, which, if it so please, shall employ the results of victory with honorableness towards me; having steadfast hope that your virtue would not willingly constrain me to anything that was not honorable; entreating you to consult your own heart as to what you shall be pleased to do with me; feeling sure that the will of a prince such as you are cannot be coupled with aught but honor and magnanimity. From Wordnik.com. [A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 4] Reference
Myron, however, bowed low before Talena, in this perhaps saluting the loftiness and honorableness of her status, that of the free female. âI do not understand, â said Marcus. âWait, â I said. âWill he not now strip her and have her put in chains? â asked Marcus. âWatch, â I said. âShe will be in his tent, as one of his women, before nightfall, â he said. âWatch, â I said. âTo be sure, â he said, âperhaps she will be kept for the (pg. 92) pleasure gardens of Lurius of Jad, or the kennels if his house slaves, if she was not beautiful enough for his pleasure gardens. â âWatch a moment, â I said. From Wordnik.com. [Magicians of Gor]
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