What's the difference between honorable and honorary?

Honorable


Definition:

  • (a.) Worthy of honor; fit to be esteemed or regarded; estimable; illustrious.
  • (a.) High-minded; actuated by principles of honor, or a scrupulous regard to probity, rectitude, or reputation.
  • (a.) Proceeding from an upright and laudable cause, or directed to a just and proper end; not base; irreproachable; fair; as, an honorable motive.
  • (a.) Conferring honor, or produced by noble deeds.
  • (a.) Worthy of respect; regarded with esteem; to be commended; consistent with honor or rectitude.
  • (a.) Performed or accompanied with marks of honor, or with testimonies of esteem; an honorable burial.
  • (a.) Of reputable association or use; respectable.
  • (a.) An epithet of respect or distinction; as, the honorable Senate; the honorable gentleman.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Spotlight is still the favourite to win best picture A dinner in Beverly Hills was hosted in Spotlight’s honor on Sunday night.
  • (2) Last month, Black Lives Matter Toronto staged a sit-in during the city’s gay pride march, which the group had been invited to join as an honored guest.
  • (3) The Hollander test of gastric secretion in response to acute hypoglycemia is a time-honored method of evaluating vagal integrity.
  • (4) NFL commissioner Roger Goodell said as recently as January that the mascot is "presented in a way that honors Native Americans," and further claimed that nine of 10 Native Americans polled actually support it .
  • (5) The irony of her image being exchanged in return for commodities in the future,” she said, “seems to recall the way that actual slaves’ bodies were serving as currencies of exchange.” Larson arrived at a different conclusion about the honor.
  • (6) Thanksgiving this year should be a worldwide celebration to honor the water protectors and recognize the spiritual battle that has sustained us since the arrival of Columbus,” said Cheryl Angel, a Sicangu Lakota.
  • (7) The memorial service honored those first responders and two civilians who tried to fight the fire and were posthumously named volunteer first responders.
  • (8) We’ve had over 100 years to honor her with our own actions.
  • (9) This article reflects upon five surgeons who have been recognized as worthy of this honor.
  • (10) This week, Reich and his musicians performed three nights of concerts with the Philip Glass Ensemble at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, at a festival in honor of the 50 th anniversary of Nonesuch Records.
  • (11) Frustrated not over economics but “sacred rights”, they were willing to sacrifice “our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor” against the world’s mightiest empire.
  • (12) The gambit worked, and Miami made four straight NBA Finals appearances, winning championships in 2012 and 2013, James taking Finals MVP honors both times.
  • (13) Rather than honoring their sacrifice and recognizing their pain, Mr Trump disparaged the religion of the family of an American hero,” Collins wrote.
  • (14) Honor & Folly ( honorandfolly.com , one bedroom $165 a night, both bedrooms $215, plus a sofabed for children) is a home away from home with a fully stocked kitchen and a cosy living area decorated with vintage and locally crafted furniture.
  • (15) Honor Westnedge, a lead analyst at consultancy Verdict Retail, said: “ Mothercare must emphasise its needs-driven and essential product offer to new parents, as demand for this product is still there but price-led rivals will be luring shoppers away.
  • (16) "I did not see this coming," said Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan , tipping his hat to competitor House of Cards, the first online contender for top Emmy honors.
  • (17) Event recording during anesthesia depends upon the time-honored but inefficient handmade record of the anesthetist.
  • (18) Then, in December, Abe paid a visit to the Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo, where 14 war criminals from the second world war are honored.
  • (19) Yet, the time-honored theory of calcium-soap formation enjoys wide acceptance.
  • (20) In an executive order he ruled that young immigrants who arrived in the US illegally before age 16 and spent at least five continuous years here would be allowed to stay and apply for work permits, providing they had no criminal history and met other criteria, such as graduating from high school or serving honorably in the military.

Honorary


Definition:

  • (a.) A fee offered to professional men for their services; as, an honorarium of one thousand dollars.
  • (a.) An honorary payment, usually in recognition of services for which it is not usual or not lawful to assign a fixed business price.
  • (a.) Done as a sign or evidence of honor; as, honorary services.
  • (a.) Conferring honor, or intended merely to confer honor without emolument; as, an honorary degree.
  • (a.) Holding a title or place without rendering service or receiving reward; as, an honorary member of a society.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "Our study shows the potential benefit of putting prostate cancer on a par with cancers such as breast cancer when it comes to genetic testing," said study co-leader Ros Eeles, professor of oncogenics at the Institute of Cancer Research and honorary consultant at the Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust.
  • (2) After retiring from the company on becoming honorary chairman, Agnelli retained an active role in the holding companies through which the family controls the carmaker.
  • (3) It was obviously, as I understood later, a case of Madiba [the honorary tribal name by which Mandela is largely known] being the great strategist that he is.
  • (4) Jack Reed of Rhode Island, an honorary and non-voting member of the committee due to his seat as ranking member of the Senate armed services committee, also signed the letter, which was dated Tuesday and publicly released on Wednesday.
  • (5) Sir Malcolm Rifkind, the Tory group's honorary president , defended the launch and said it would be ludicrous to cut off contact with Russian officials.
  • (6) Kazimierz Karasinski has been honorary consul of the UK in Krakow for 16 years, helping British citizens in sticky situations.
  • (7) This rebranding exercise was seriously compromised last year when Jean-Marie Le Pen, who still held an honorary role in the party, repeated his view that gas chambers used to kill Jews in the Holocaust were “merely a detail in the history” of the second world war.
  • (8) The Nobel laureate has resigned as an honorary professor at University College London after saying to a conference in South Korea: “Let me tell you about my trouble with girls … [He’s 72.]
  • (9) Last summer, 3,000 mourners attended the funeral of Tama the cat , whose 2007 appointment as honorary stationmaster at a railway station in western Japan was credited with saving the line from financial ruin.
  • (10) Coming off an honorary Oscar win at last month’s Governors Awards , Lee has delivered one of his most daring and accomplished films to date with Chi-Raq, which transplants the Greek play Lysistrata to modern-day Chicago, to offer a passionate treatise on the gun epidemic that has crippled America.
  • (11) She is currently the party's president and its honorary chairman.
  • (12) She went on to gain a masters degree from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and was an honorary senior research fellow at the School of Health Sciences at City University, London.
  • (13) Retreating to your lab and hoping it will all go away is not going to be the best strategy Andrew Rosenberg, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration In March, Bill Nye , the bow-tied embodiment of science for many Americans, and Mona Hanna-Attisha, a pediatrician who alerted the world to soaring levels of lead in the blood of children in Flint, Michigan, were named as honorary co-chairs.
  • (14) The injury-weakened German champions went down 3-1 in their quarter-final first leg , leaving their hopes of making the Champions League semi-finals hanging by a thread, and Bayern’s honorary president and most distinguished defender was unsparing in his criticism of the team.
  • (15) Rubinstein said the decision to close the embassy, as well as honorary consulates in Troy, Michigan, and Houston, Texas, was “in consideration of the atrocities the Assad regime has committed against the Syrian people”.
  • (16) The former foreign secretary said the "inappropriate" photo was the last straw that had prompted him to quit as the group's honorary president.
  • (17) The article deals with the question how well known a new social service becomes which is completely based on voluntary and honorary work.
  • (18) There is also a Betamax videotape recording of him receiving an honorary professorship at the Modern Academy of the Humanities, an obscure Moscow university that offers distance learning.
  • (19) "It was only later that I became an honorary member of the Rat Pack…" I first got interested in Michael Munn's fantastical life when his biography of David Niven came out in 2009.
  • (20) Obama’s predecessor, Laura Bush, served as an honorary ambassador for the UN literacy decade, promotes health issues and serves on multiple boards.

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