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honouring

honouring is the present participle and gerund of honour.

Meaning of honour

Verb

honour (third-person singular simple present honours, present participle honouring, simple past and past participle honoured)

  1. British, Canadian, Commonwealth, and Ireland standard spelling of honor.

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Phrases with honouring

Questions about honouring

What is honouring the present participle and gerund of?
Honouring is the present participle and gerund of honour.

Words near honouring in the dictionary

  1. honourest
  2. honoureth
  3. honourific
  4. honourifically
  5. honourifics
  6. honouring
  7. honouring in the breach
  8. honourless
  9. honourlessness
  10. honourous
  11. honours

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Adapted from Wiktionary: honouring (page history and authors); honour (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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