Honourably

//ˈɒnəɹəbli// adv

adv ·Rare ·Advanced level

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Adverb
  1. 1
    In an honourable manner. UK

    "Inevitably the present extent and variety of the Belgian railways will diminish, and within the space of the ten-year plan we can expect to see a modern system concentrated on the main traffic routes like its neighbour in the Netherlands, and with its last steam locomotives and wooden coaches honourably retired to the museum."

Adverb
  1. 1
    with honor wordnet

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""Dear!" said Clarissa, and Lucy shared as she meant her to her disappointment (but not the pang); felt the concord between them; took the hint; thought how the gentry love; gilded her own future with calm; and, taking Mrs. Dalloway's parasol, handled it like a sacred weapon which a Goddess, having acquitted herself honourably in the field of battle, sheds, and placed it in the umbrella stand."

Etymology

From honourable + -ly.

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