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▪ I. honouring, honoring, vbl. n.|ˈɒnərɪŋ| [f. honour v. + -ing1.] The action of the verb honour; honour. (Now chiefly as gerund.)
c1375Sc. Leg. Saints, Baptista 1149 Ȝet of sancte Iohnne in honoryng I ma eke to a ferly thing. 1500–20Dunbar Poems xliv. 3 Thay [wemen] suld haif wirschep and grit honoring Off men. 1535Coverdale Wisd. xiv. 27 The honouringe of abhominable ymages. 1667Milton P.L. viii. 569 An outside? fair no doubt, and worthy well Thy cherishing, thy honouring, and thy love. ▪ II. ˈhonouring, ˈhonoring, ppl. a. [f. as prec. + -ing2.] That honours; see the verb. Hence ˈhonouringly adv.
1845R. W. Hamilton Pop. Educ. iii. (ed. 2) 45 We honouringly contrast its patience, its contentment, its cheerfulness with its treatment. 1854Emerson Lett. & Soc. Aims, Quot. & Orig. Wks. (Bohn) III. 223 A phrase or a single word is adduced, with honouring emphasis, from Pindar. |