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honourable (obs. use): respectable, decent, be coming LLL. V. ii. 328 “chides the dice In terms,” Shr. Ind. i. 110 “bear himself with action.” ∥ The meaning ‘upright, honest’ is not pre-S. All'sW. V. iii. 241, Rom. II. ii. 143, Cæs. III. ii. 88-9; also the advb. use=‘honourably’ 3H6 III. ii. 123 (so F1; Qq Ff2 3 4 “honourably”), Cæs. V. i. 60.
A Shakespeare Glossary. C. T. Onions. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1911.
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