Meanings of doing honour in English

The French families vied with the English in doing honour to the occasion.

Other cities vie with each other in doing honour to the gifted artist.

And are you then diligent in doing honour to Caesar's memory?

And I gave him half-a-sovereign, feeling, somehow, that I was doing honour to Winifred.

In season or out, they didn't care; they thought only of doing honour to my line.

Only for the sake of doing honour to Miss Forrester, they would have gone on foot.

The Indians and whites vied with each other in doing honour to the memory of the departed chief.

Pompeius opposed Lepidus now, for he knew that the partisans of Sulla would insist on doing honour to his memory.

Some receiving, others paying visits in covered conveyances; all doing honour to the day by wearing their best jewellery and splendid dresses.

Their immense contribution to our campaign is doing honour to the image of our country in the eyes of my foreign colleagues.

She could endure now to contemplate a long life spent in doing honour to his memory by the industrious discharge of duty.

Jephthah's handwriting was of a bold description doing honour to his tutors, but the letter was very brief, though to the purpose-

This imposing funeral solemnity had been ordered by the administration of the country, which was desirous of doing honour to the virtues of Virginia.

Is it so very funny to see Clump doing honour to a day once so big with the fate of England and the world?

The offer was accepted, for a late breakfast had by no means left our hero incapable of doing honour to dinner, which was now presented.

The penny Press, by way of doing honour to their new ruler, boldly fixed the numbers at 40,000-thatwas their bit of Buncombe.