right honourable
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See also: Right Honourable
Alternative forms
Adjective
right honourable (not comparable)
- A courtesy title applied to a peer below the rank of marquess.
- A courtesy title applied to a privy counsellor, to the lord mayor of various cities, governor general, and to the prime minister of certain Commonwealth countries.
- 1906, FE Smith, maiden speech to House of Commons, 12 Mar 1906:
- I have in honourable and right honourable gentlemen opposite an admirable example of how to cut the painter of a similar league, with the maximum of political advancement, and the minimum of fidelity to a founder.
- 1906, FE Smith, maiden speech to House of Commons, 12 Mar 1906:
Derived terms
- Right Hon.
- Rt. Hon.
Related terms
Translations
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