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- adjective Archaic form of
honored . - verb archaic Simple past tense and past participle of
honour .
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Examples
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The apostles [2] shall be duly honour'd if the public will bear a reprint.
Letter 265 2009
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I thank your Lordship for your Letter; [in BL copy only: and if you had not known that I should thank you heartily I should not have been honour'd with it.] and will henceforth when the spirit moves me poetically or otherwise, obey the impulse and transmit the news of the moment.
Letter 80 2009
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I have for months refrain'd from addressing you when I most wished to do it, on the death of my true friend, your late honour'd Father.
Letter 264 2009
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My Lord Having for some years past boasted, as well I might, a personal knowledge of your late honour'd Father, valuable to me as a Critick and a Friend, I beg your Grace's acceptance of a small Volume [1] which I once hope'd to present to my departed Patron, and to have recieved his candid remarks.
Letter 271 2009
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In a segment entitled “The Key”, the Prime Minister, played by Paul Eddington, admonishes his cabinet secretary, played by Nigel Hawthorne, who has just used the expression More honour'd in the breach than the observance , for his use of pompous language and for destroying “the most beautiful language in the world, the language of Shakespeare” .
Churchill, Shakespeare and Cervantes (English) Rene Meertens 2010
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In a segment entitled “The Key”, the Prime Minister, played by Paul Eddington, admonishes his cabinet secretary, played by Nigel Hawthorne, who has just used the expression More honour'd in the breach than the observance , for his use of pompous language and for destroying “the most beautiful language in the world, the language of Shakespeare” .
Archive 2010-03-01 Rene Meertens 2010
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They all ascended, two and two, and trod the honour'd shore,
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I am shock'd & honour'd to have my book mention'd in Laird's list!
Congrats to Laird Barron Patrick 2009
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I lov'd him as my Husband, honour'd him as my King, tender'd him as my Lover; yet the Remembrance of his being my
Exilius 2008
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I was honour'd in thy Friendship; I glory'd in being thine Associate in the War: I was proud of being thy
Exilius 2008
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