OXFORD 9000
📚 adj • entry_id 27699

honorable

/ˈɒnəɹəbl̩/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
honorable • honrable (disused) • honrado • honroso
Worthy of respect; respectable.
In confinement ladies are attended, not by the ordinary doctors, but by women especially devoted to the calling, who regard their profession as honorable and humanitary.