Honoring: alternatives and connections

A figure of speech employed when a speaker having begun to say a thing stops abruptly: thus, "He is a man of so much honor and candor,…

Something added to a coat of arms, as a mark of honor; -- opposed to abatement.

The act of playing honor to a divine being; the worship paid to God; the act of addressing as a god.

To worship with profound reverence; to pay divine honors to; to honor as deity or as divine.

Any proceeding or action which it is wished to refer to or characterize vaguely; as, an affair of honor, i. e., a duel; an affair of l…

To make great or greater in power, rank, honor, or wealth; -- applied to persons, countries, etc.

The act of aggrandizing, or the state of being aggrandized or exalted in power, rank, honor, or wealth; exaltation; enlargement; as, t…

That which allures; any real or apparent good held forth, or operating, as a motive to action; as, the allurements of pleasure, or of…

An eager, and sometimes an inordinate, desire for preferment, honor, superiority, power, or the attainment of something.

Possessing, or controlled by, ambition; greatly or inordinately desirous of power, honor, office, superiority, or distinction.

In honor of Apollo; as, the Apollinarian games.

A festival in honor of the ascent of the Virgin Mary into heaven.

A additional charge to a coat of arms, given as a mark of honor.

A song or dance in honor of Bacchus.

A feast or an orgy in honor of Bacchus.

From a better to a worse state, as from honor to shame, from religion to sin.

A professional poet and singer, as among the ancient Celts, whose occupation was to compose and sing verses in honor of the heroic ach…

A dignity or degree of honor next below a baron and above a knight, having precedency of all orders of knights except those of the Gar…