right honourable

短语

别名

right honorable Right Honourable

释义与例句

adj.
  1. 1.

    A courtesy title applied to a peer below the rank of marquess.

  2. 2.

    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.

    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.