thonoure
Middle English
[edit]Contraction
[edit]thonoure
- Contraction of the honoure.
- 1372, Geoffroy de la Tour Landry, “Prologue”, in The booke of thenseygnementes and techynge that the Knyght of the Towre made to his doughters[1], published 1902, page 16:
- ...for the sauacion of theyr sowles as for thonoure of the body erthely
- ...for the salvation of their souls as for the honour of the earthly body