HONORING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does honoring mean? 

• HONORING (noun)
  The noun HONORING has 1 sense:

1. conformity with law or custom or practice etc.

  Familiarity information: HONORING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HONORING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Conformity with law or custom or practice etc.

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

honoring; observance

Hypernyms ("honoring" is a kind of...):

abidance; compliance; conformation; conformity (acting according to certain accepted standards)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "honoring"):

punctilio (strict observance of formalities)

Derivation:

honor (show respect towards)

 Context examples 

Item, that having been told by the master of the novices that he should restrict his food for two days to a single three-pound loaf of bran and beans, for the greater honoring and glorifying of St. Monica, mother of the holy Augustine, he was heard by brother Ambrose and others to say that he wished twenty thousand devils would fly away with the said Monica, mother of the holy Augustine, or any other saint who came between a man and his meat.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)