Honourably short time to recover (7)

I believe the answer is:

morally

'honourably' is the definition.

'short time to recover' is the wordplay.
'short time' becomes 'mo' (slang abbreviation for 'moment').
'to recover' becomes 'rally' (rallying is a kind of recovering).
'mo'+'rally'='MORALLY'

(Another definition for morally that I've seen is " To all intents and purposes - in terms of right and wrong".)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.

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