| 单词 | code of honour |
| 释义 | > as lemmascode of honour code of honour n. any (unwritten) set of rules, customs, or principles regulating the behaviour of a particular group of people; cf. honour n. 2a, honour code n. 1. [Probably after French code d'honneur (1752 or earlier).] ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > customs, values, and civilization > customs, values, or beliefs of a society or group > [noun] > set of usagec1405 code of honour1771 code of conduct1814 honour code1845 1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker III. 158 It looks like compounding a sort of felony in the code of honour. 1843 C. J. Lever Jack Hinton (1878) xviii. 126 They know how imperative is the code of honour as regards a bet. 1887 T. Fowler Princ. Morals ii. iv Similarly, lawyers, doctors, clergymen, bankers are said to have a code of honour, or, what amounts to the same thing, to observe certain rules of professional etiquette. 1903 School Jrnl. 5 Sept. 194/2 The chief maxim of the recognized schoolboy code of honour—that one boy must not tell anything against another. 1999 S. Heaney in tr. Beowulf (2000) Introd. p. xi A pagan Germanic society governed by a heroic code of honour. 2018 Straits Times (Singapore) (Nexis) 13 Feb. (Life section) Martial arts exponents travel China trading blows, teaching skills and upholding a strict code of honour. < as lemmas |
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