honourable

Etymology

adj

  1. Britain standard spelling of honorable.
    It was aptly said by Newton that "whatever is not deduced from facts must be regarded as hypothesis," but hypothesis appears to us a title too honourable for the crude guessings to which we allude. 1846, George Luxford, Edward Newman, The Phytologist: a popular botanical miscellany: Volume 2, Part 2, page 474

noun

  1. Britain standard spelling of honorable.

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