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Honourable vs Virtuous - What's the difference?

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Honourable is a related term of virtuous.


As adjectives the difference between honourable and virtuous

is that honourable is (british spelling) while virtuous is full of virtue, having excellent moral character.

honourable

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (British spelling)
  • * 1846 , George Luxford, Edward Newman, The Phytologist: a popular botanical miscellany: Volume 2, Part 2 , page 474
    • It was aptly said by Newton that "whatever is not deduced from facts must be regarded as hypothesis," but hypothesis appears to us a title too honourable for the crude guessings to which we allude.

    Derived terms

    * honourably

    virtuous

    English

    Alternative forms

    * vertuous (obsolete) * vertuus (obsolete)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Full of virtue, having excellent moral character.

    • Synonyms

    * good * righteous

    Derived terms

    * virtuousness

    Related terms

    * virtual * virtue * virtuosity

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