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  • adverb In an honorary manner.

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Examples

  • They end up DEEP FRIED and served on a platter wedged into the side of their favored sibling who has been honorarily stabbed with a "holy" picture, and bedecked in loose candy flotsam, ribbons, rings and things and buttons and bows.

    Lamb Fleeces 2010

  • Even a scaled-back movement to "honorarily rename" the town, whatever that means, fell through.

    "Stephen Strasburg, Va." plan ends badly 2010

  • Perhaps we should start a list of fathers you can honorarily outrage as you continue to outrage your own.

    Beth as 'charity duty', I plot mischief and wear a mini-skirt Elizabeth McClung 2008

  • I can hardly help but laugh when the celebrity behind an honorarily named fragrance is a literary figure... it's always so utterly and wonderfully absurd.

    Perfume Review: Histoires de Parfums 1740 Marquis de Sade Marina Geigert 2007

  • He has been honorarily been named Pedro, and has the cutest fro ever. ps - I'm supposed to be able to see the aurora borealis from here sometime soon.

    meli Diary Entry meli 2000

  • The liberal position would seem to be the reverse of what's in the list - I feel it would be more along the lines of "Though this person has not completed the course of study to 'earn' the degree, this person has shown him/herself to be competent in this field, and is honorarily awarded the title in lieu of this."

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] Bobobo 2010

  • This will mark the first time that the Stevie Awards will honorarily nominate many of the world's most prominent companies and executives in its programs.

    Marketwire - Breaking News Releases 2010

  • Harvard in 1973 but didn't get his degree until it was granted, honorarily, thirty-four years later.

    The New Yorker Rebecca Mead 2010

  • This will mark the first time that the Stevie Awards will honorarily nominate many of the world's most prominent companies and executives in its programs.

    The Earth Times Online Newspaper 2010

  • The liberal position would seem to be the reverse of what's in the list - I feel it would be more along the lines of "Though this person has not completed the course of study to 'earn' the degree, this person has shown him/herself to be competent in this field, and is honorarily awarded the title in lieu of this."

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] Bobobo 2010

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