HONOURABLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does honourably mean? 

• HONOURABLY (adverb)
  The adverb HONOURABLY has 1 sense:

1. with honor

  Familiarity information: HONOURABLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HONOURABLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

With honor

Synonyms:

honorably; honourably

Context example:

he was honorably discharged after many years of service

 Context examples 

But now, when he has made his overtures so properly, and honourably—what are your scruples now?

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

I wish to set before you, honourably, the exact consequences—so far as they are within my knowledge—of your abetting him in this appeal.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He was therefore honourably received, and a special dwelling was assigned him.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

The Musgroves are behaving like themselves, most honourably and kindly, only anxious with true parental hearts to promote their daughter's comfort.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Now, my sweet Catherine, all our distresses are over; you are honourably acquitted, and we shall have a most delightful party.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Your musical knowledge alone would entitle you to name your own terms, have as many rooms as you like, and mix in the family as much as you chose;—that is—I do not know—if you knew the harp, you might do all that, I am very sure; but you sing as well as play;—yes, I really believe you might, even without the harp, stipulate for what you chose;—and you must and shall be delightfully, honourably and comfortably settled before the Campbells or I have any rest.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

But when the second moment had passed, when she found every doubt, every solicitude removed, compared her situation with what so lately it had been,—saw him honourably released from his former engagement, saw him instantly profiting by the release, to address herself and declare an affection as tender, as constant as she had ever supposed it to be,—she was oppressed, she was overcome by her own felicity;—and happily disposed as is the human mind to be easily familiarized with any change for the better, it required several hours to give sedateness to her spirits, or any degree of tranquillity to her heart.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Will it not be honourably conveyed?

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Without suffering any romantic alarm, in the consideration of their daughter's long and lonely journey, Mr. and Mrs. Morland could not but feel that it might have been productive of much unpleasantness to her; that it was what they could never have voluntarily suffered; and that, in forcing her on such a measure, General Tilney had acted neither honourably nor feelingly—neither as a gentleman nor as a parent.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

You think only of yourself, and because you do not feel for Mr. Crawford exactly what a young heated fancy imagines to be necessary for happiness, you resolve to refuse him at once, without wishing even for a little time to consider of it, a little more time for cool consideration, and for really examining your own inclinations; and are, in a wild fit of folly, throwing away from you such an opportunity of being settled in life, eligibly, honourably, nobly settled, as will, probably, never occur to you again.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)