Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- A contraction of Honorable. Same as
Hon . .
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Examples
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A Letter to "the Right honble and my singular good lorde."
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A Letter to "the Right honble and my singular good lorde"
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I am informed that they recommend to the Legislature as I have already done to your honble Board the construction of a 2nd canal from the Lake to East bluff bay & that they propose a canal of 20 feet bottom which they think can be constructed for $20,000.
The Beginnings of Public Education in North Carolina; A Documentary History, 1790-1840. Vol. II Charles Lee 1908
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Poet. 161, which bears the following title: "Poems, songs, and a pastorall, by the Rt honble the Lady Jane Cavendish and Lady Elizabeth Brackley."
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Country, Horses not over Seventy five the first year, & afterwards according to the exigency of the busniess at their Cost at Walla Walla, and men not exceeding fifteen the first year, and thereafter according to the wants of the Trade, at the Cost of their wages commencing from the time said men shall leave the place where they are hired, the honble.
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Well, I reckon he was a vulgar critter that, he replied, he treated the honble.
The Clockmaker — or, the Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick, of Slickville Thomas Chandler Haliburton 1830
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Ellicott.honble. thos. jefferson Esqr. Secretary of State.
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Poet. 161, which bears the following title: "Poems, songs, and a pastorall, by the Rt honble the Lady Jane Cavendish and Lady Elizabeth Brackley."
The Concealed Fansyes: A Play by Lady Jane Cavendish and Lady Elizabeth Brackley Jane Cheyne 1644
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Stock to beare Children on wth all I would have hir take the weeke Bookes wch is the onely way to make hir Uncapable of discourse or entertayne ment, and if shee doe not give respects to my mother, and Sisters I will tell hir shee hath not deserved to enter into my honble old howse, and I knowe, contynually seeinge old longe Beards make leggs to mee, will teach hir the fashion to obey.
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Rt. honble Duke of New Castle Principal Secty of State
Letter from Robert Carter to the Duke of Newcastle, January 5, 1727 1727
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