Honor
Honor verb - To show appreciation, respect, or affection for (someone) with a public celebration.
Lower
Lower verb - To reduce to a lower standing in one's own eyes or in others' eyes.
Usage example: how could you lower yourself by passing off someone else's work as your own?
Both words in one sentence
- His Aunt Agatha is equally obsessed with family honor, but has a different idea of it than he does, most of it revolving around not marrying into the lower classes.
Source: Family Honor - He then berates Zhao for his poor sportsmanship stating that even though Zuko is of lower rank then him, he has way more honor then Zhao ever will.
- Iron Man apparently exhausts his systems and life support in the climax of the film, and both Cap and and Thor lower their heads in honor of his sacrifice.
Source: Disney Death / Disney
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