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Definition of Time-honoured

1. Adjective. Acceptable for a long time. "Time-honored customs"

2. Adjective. Honored because of age or long usage. "Time-honored institutions"

Definition of Time-honoured

1. Adjective. (alternative spelling of time-honored) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Time-honoured

time-bomb time-bombs time-book time-compensated gain time-consuming time-delay time-delay measuring instrument time-delay measuring system time-delays time-dependent

time-exposure time-frame time-fuse time-gain compensation time-honored time-honoured (current term) time-independent time-invariant time-keeper time-keepers

time-keeping time-killer time-killers time-lapse time-lapse microscopy time-like time-limit time-line time-lock time-locks

Literary usage of Time-honoured

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"To most writers, however, there does not seem to be sufficient reason for giving up the time-honoured view which holds that the Hebrews proceeded southward ..."

2. The Book of Days: A Miscellany of Popular Antiquities in Connection with the by Robert Chambers (1832)
"... has been the representation of a species of drama, which embodies the time-honoured legend of St George and the dragon, with sundry whimsical adjuncts, ..."

3. The Antiquary by Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson (1907)
"... should crept in perilous times of devastation and cruelty the Four Masters—time honoured monks—to write a history that a nation might well be proud of. ..."

4. Old and New London: A Narrative of Its History, Its People, and Its Places by Walter Thornbury, Edward Walford (1881)
"... ago—" time-honoured " Lancaster's Death— A King admonished— The Earl of Sussex in Ely Place— The Hatching of a Conspiracy— Ely Place Garden— The Duke of ..."

5. The Lost Cause Regained by Edward Alfred Pollard (1868)
"... in 1861, to appropriate Democratic principles— Its return to Consolidation—Renewed appeal of the Democratic party to " time- honoured principles. ..."

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