"restore honour" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to talk about regaining respect for someone or something. For example: "After months of hard work, the conservation team was able to restore honour to the once-polluted lake."
Not too put too fine a point on it, we need to restore honour and discipline at cabinet level.
With luck Malian politics should calm down, at least for a while.Mr Keïta had presented himself in the campaign as a decisive leader who would restore honour to a country that had been humiliated.
In an attempt to "restore honour and dignity to the White House" (as Mr Bush put it during the campaign), the new president at first withdrew to some extent from the 24-hour news cycle.
Last year, Mr Beck persuade tens of thousands of followers to a Tea Party-style "Rally to Restore Honour" in Washington, prompting Comedy Central satirist Jon Stewart to lampoon the event and stage his own, much bigger, Rally to Restore Sanity in the run-up to the mid-term elections.
Of these, 359 were so called "Karo Kari" cases, whereby family members consider themselves authorised to kill offending relatives to restore honour.
Instead of concentrating on a single concept such as "restoring honour", the theme of Glenn Beck's rally some weeks earlier—everyone I chatted to was at sea as to the rally's purpose, other than to mock conservatives and Mr Beck's devotees.
When he nominated Ferrante, he said he did it to restore the honour of the Strega, an award that he says has "lost its charm" and come to resemble a game that is "brazenly rigged" in a publishing world that lacks authentic competition, just as much of Italy does.
Her husband, brother or another relative will kill her to restore their "honour".
It will be a way for us to avenge ourselves and we will try to restore our honour".
This inspired in him the ambition to restore the honour of his house and evoked in him the sense of grandeur he was to attribute vicariously to France.
Spanish MEP Francisco Sosa-Wagner yesterday brandished a cucumber as he declared: "We need to restore the honour of the cucumber".
