honorable

adj

1. (US)Behaving in a manner that shows honor; decent, having integrity.
2. (US)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.”

3. (US)Complying with cultural rules regarding honor; not provoking shame or disgrace.

   “That culture considered it no disgrace to be defeated in honorable combat.”

   “Luxury was abolished. People lived in honorable marriage. All the women were chaste, faithful, and far from wantoners.”

4. (US)A courtesy title, given in Britain and the Commonwealth to a cabinet minister, minister of state, or senator, and in the United States to the president, vice president, congresspeople, state governors and legislators, and mayors.

   “Uncheered by friends, unhissed by foes, the honorable member blandly continued his speech […]”

5. (alt-of)Alternative letter-case form of honorable.

noun

1. (US)A politician or other person who bears the title of "honorable".

   “These included a reception for the Congress participants, given by the city of Barcelona in a 14th century palace, with guards making room for the mayor and other honorables, […]”