honourworthy

English

Alternative forms

• honour-worthy, honour worthy
• honorworthy, honor-worthy, honor worthy (US)

Etymology

From honour +‎ -worthy.

Adjective

honourworthy (comparative honourworthier or more honourworthy, superlative honourworthiest or most honourworthy)

1. Worthy of or deserving honour; honourable.

   Synonym: dishonourworthy

   • 1882, James Anthony Froude, Thomas Carlyle: A History of the First Forty Years of His Life, 1795–1835 […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC:

     I trusted that I might have had other glad meetings and pleasant communings with my honoured and honourworthy father in this world, but it was not so appointed.

   • 1939 May 4, James Joyce, Finnegans Wake, London: Faber and Faber Limited, →OCLC; republished London: Faber & Faber Limited, 1960, →OCLC, part II, page 244:

     Where is our highly honourworthy salutable spouse-founderess?