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Quotation dates: 1399-1626
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Honour, Honor, v. Also: honowr-, -oure, -ore, honnour. [ME. honoure, -ouri (c 1290), -owre, -our, -or, OF. honurer, -ourer, -orer.] tr. To hold in honour, to do honour to.(a) (1) a1400 Legends of the Saints i. 217.
As god sal all men honoure me a1400 Ib. xx. 336.
Fals godis I honoure nane c1420 Wynt. vii. 430.
Saynt Cuthbert thare thai honoure now 1456 Hay II. 107/5.
Thy peple sall honoure thé and lufe thé 1490 Irland Mir. I. 35/19.
The haly spreit … garris us honoure the godheid 1622-6 Bisset II. 187/31.
To luif, honoure, and obey thame [sc. the kings](b) a1400 Legends of the Saints x. 274.
To kene ȝov … hym [sc. Jesus] to worschipe & honour ?1438 Alex. II. 394.
Men aucht to pryse and honour him c1475 Acts of Schir William Wallace i. 5.
Till honour ennymyis is our haile entent 1495 Reg. Episc. Brechin II. 316.
Til anorne and honour owr lady kirk 1509 Misc. Spald. C. IV. 195.
Oblessand me … to honnour … and serve the said noble lord c1552 Lynd. Mon. 2137.
One image … Quhilk thay did honour … As it … God had bene(c) a1400 Legends of the Saints xxviii. 539.
Jhesu I sal honor ay a1400 Ib. xxxiii. 333.
Til honore prestis alquhare c1420 Ratis Raving 1232.
Fra thow hire [sc. Reason] knaw, Honore hire 1490 Irland Mir. I. 161/20.
Thai tholit nocht man to honor … thame in that way(2) a1400 Legends of the Saints vi. 615.
Thu … honowryse thi awne payntynge 1456 Hay II. 68/12.
Quha honouris thame in governement of bataill, honouris him self 1461 Liber Pluscardensis 381.
God of nature, quhilk all the eird honouris With fruyt and fulye 1490 Irland Mir. I. 143/5.
The angell of god, … salusand and honorand hir c1500-c1512 Dunb. x. 31.
Him honouring attour all thing(b, c) (a) a1400 Legends of the Saints ix. 272.
That … fend that thi bruthire Honowrit as god a1400 Ib. xxvii. 25.
God mad him … In Toron till honouryt be c1400 Troy-bk. II. 1419.
He … honouryt thame at departyng a1500 Henr. Test. Cress. 109.
The tempill … In quhilk Venus and … Cupido War honourit 1560 Rolland Seven Sages 8405.
I sall … honourit be with lord, barroun, & knicht 1596 Dalr. I. 229/9.
The Scottis … haue honouret S. Brigida(b) a1400 Legends of the Saints i. 286.
That he mycht … As god be honorit c1420 Wynt. v. 4678.
Devotly scho is honoryd thare 1490 Irland Mir. I. 44/17.
Quhen … a clerk [desires] to be honorit as a prelat 1533 Boece x. xiv. 383 b.
Ageit men schew how eild aucht be honorit
b. Also, to confer honour upon, to grace. 1456 Hay II. 37/32.
For wald men understand that alsmekle is nature honourit as for corporale nature in tree and beste as in man; bot as for nature spirituale man is mare honourde
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