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Renown is a related term of honour.


As a noun renown

is fame; celebrity; wide recognition.

As a proper noun honour is

, a less common spelling of honor.

renown

English

Noun

(-)
  • Fame; celebrity; wide recognition.
  • * Dryden
  • Nor envy we thy great renown , nor grudge thy victory.
  • * 1922 , (James Joyce), '' Episode 12, ''The Cyclops
  • There sleep the mighty dead as in life they slept, warriors and princes of high renown .
  • Reports of nobleness or exploits; praise.
  • * Shakespeare
  • This famous duke of Milan, / Of whom so often I have heard renown .

    See also

    * renowned

    honour

    English

    Noun

  • * 1902 , Richard Francis Weymouth, Translation of the New Testament of the Bible , Book 60, 1 Peter 2:4:
  • Come to Him, the ever-living Stone, rejected indeed by men as worthless, but in God's esteem chosen and held in honour .
  • * (rfdate), Shakespeare:
  • If she have forgot / Honour and virtue.
  • * (rfdate), Milton:
  • Godlike erect, with native honour clad.

    Verb

    (en verb)