Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- abbreviation honorable (title)
- abbreviation honorary
from The Century Dictionary.
- An abbreviation of
honorable , used as a title. - An abbreviation of honorary.
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Examples
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She captured a truth this weekend when she called the Hon.
SPEECH BY HON I VADI DURING THE DEBATE ON THE PRESIDENT'S STATE OF THE NATION ADDRESS 2004
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Through successive bequests, the Church and land became the property of Captain Hon.
Italianate Architecture in Surbiton, England: St. Raphael's 2009
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The third declared that this meeting of non-partisan citizens, anxious to continue to the city the unexampled prosperity it had enjoyed for the past two years, hereby placed in nomination for a second term the Hon.
Tin-Types Taken in the Streets of New York A Series of Stories and Sketches Portraying Many Singular Phases of Metropolitan Life Lemuel Ely Quigg
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I have seen the sergeant-at-arms of the United States Senate referred to as Hon. in the records of that body.
Chapter 4. American and English Today. 3. Honorifics Henry Louis 1921
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But it is questionable whether this application has any actual legal standing, save perhaps in the case of certain judges, who are referred to as the Hon. in their own court records.
Chapter 4. American and English Today. 3. Honorifics Henry Louis 1921
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And I expect I put considerable flourish into the business when I announces him to Dowd, omittin 'careful to call the Hon.
Torchy As A Pa Sewell Ford 1907
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Member who three times unsuccessfully calls another Hon.
Fifteen Chapters of Autobiography George William Erskine Russell 1886
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How it would tickle me to hear my niece calling the Hon.
Quincy Adams Sawyer and Mason's Corner Folks A Picture of New England Home Life Charles Felton Pidgin 1883
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THE Author of this little Work cannot, in the anxious moment of committing it to its fate, refuse herself the indulgence of expressing some portion of the gratitude with which she is filled, by the highly favourable reception given to her TWO former attempts in this species of composition; nor forbear pouring forth her thanks to the many Friends whose kind zeal has forwarded the present undertaking: from amongst whom she knows not how to resist selecting and gratifying herself by naming the Hon.
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Why don't you stand by your tag "Hon." and do exactly that.
An Astronomical Perspective on Climate Change | Universe Today 2009
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