| 单词 | honourable discharge |
| 释义 | > as lemmashonourable discharge honourable discharge n. release from service or imprisonment with honour; (Military) discharge from military service with honour attesting to good conduct; (also) a certificate recording such a discharge; cf. dishonourable discharge at dishonourable adj. Additions c, general discharge n. 2. ΚΠ 1664 S. Butler Hudibras: Second Pt. i. 59 This suffer'd, they are set at large And free'd with honorable discharge, Then in their Robes the Penitentials, Are streight presented with Credentials. 1766 J. H. Grose Voy. E.-Indies (ed. 2) II. Contents p. xvii He quits the French service; is taken in a Dutch ship, and brought prisoner to England, in 1747: his removal to France, confinement in the Bastile, and honorable discharge. 1777 S. Adams Let. 8 Jan. in Lett. of Delegates to Congr. (1980) VI. 49 Genl Gates speaks very highly of the Militia you sent him the last Fall. He applauds greatly their Zeal for the Cause..and he tells me he gave them an honorable Discharge. 1898 G. B. Davis Treat. on Military Law of U.S. 355 Where an honorable discharge has once duly taken effect by the delivery of the formal certificate, it is final and cannot be revoked unless obtained by fraud. 1957 A. Buchwald Brave Coward 54 I got an honorable discharge from the Army. 2001 Tucson (Arizona) Weekly 7 June 7/1 Henry Ramon, Vice Chairman of the Tohono O'odham Nation, returned home from the Korean war with his honorable discharge. < as lemmas |
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