honor as

honor (someone) as (something)

To praise or celebrate someone as something in particular. Sure, Eric is an accomplished basketball player, but he also has excellent grades, so we're going to honor him as a scholar-athlete.
See also: honor
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

honor someone as something

to praise someone as something; to praise someone for being something. Aren't you going to honor Kevin as a hero? We will honor Henry as the most promising scholar of the year.
See also: honor
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • bum about someone/something
  • dissatisfied
  • dissatisfied with
  • dissatisfied with (someone or something)
  • be nothing to do with (someone or something)
  • be/have nothing to do with somebody/something
  • boast
  • boast about
  • boast about (someone or something)
  • full circle
References in periodicals archive
The dedication had added significance to Honor as well.
Lt. Gen. Honor looks back
In light of this evidence, it would be more helpful to regard honor as one of many discourses and tools which certain groups and individuals select to justify their behavior or strengthen their authority, even if they do not always act upon it.
Scenes from Provincial Life: History, Honor, and Meaning in the Tudor North [*]
One's word remained inherent in the code of honor precisely because honor as a political and moral consideration required, even more than before, a public statement of inte nt.
Moreover, James points out that honor is a public commitment through the "freely given word," and that the significance of a given honorable situation arises "out of the nature of honor as a public code, the public status distinguishing it from a private morality." [10]
Hamlet, burdened with the revenge of his father's murder, attempts to use the violent, medieval code of honor as he begins to make public oaths.
Finally, Claudius overtly appeals to Laertes' sense of chivalric honor as the king manipulates Laertes into killing Hamlet.
"Vows to the Blackest Devil": Hamlet and the Evolving Code of Honor in Early Modern England