英语词汇“point of honour”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

point of honour n. [after Middle French, French point d'honneur (1540)] a matter regarded as vitally affecting one's honour; (hence) an obligation to demand satisfaction (originally and esp. by a duel) for a wrong or an insult.

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society > morality > virtue > honourableness > [noun] > point of honour

point of honour1592

pundonora1648

pique of honour1687

1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Luke xiv. f. clxxxiii They make haste vnto the graue, carrying with them the spieces and swete sauours..to bestowe this same as the laste poynte of honour that euer they shoulde shewe vnto hym beeyng now dead.]

1592 G. Harvey Fovr Lett., & Certaine Sonnets ii. 7 What horrible slaughterdome haue bene committed, for the point of Honour, and some few Courtly cerimonies?

1612 E. Grimeston tr. Turquet Gen. Hist. Spain xxvii. 971 (margin) Moderne combats and the Maximes of the point of honour at this day.

1656 B. Harris tr. J. N. de Parival Hist. Iron Age i. ii. x. 52 Points of honour make them runne into the Field..in such sort, as that the greatest part of the Nobility unhappily falls in Duels.

1703 tr. A. de Courtin Treat. Honour ii, in tr. A. de Courtin Rules Civility (rev. ed.) 233 When we say a Point of Honour, we mean a Rule, a Law, and a Maxim of Honour.

1782 W. Cowper Conversation in Poems 220 The point of honour has been deemed of use, To teach good manners and to curb abuse.

1850 C. Merivale Hist. Romans under Empire II. xiii. 62 To obey the call of the commonwealth was the point of honour with the Roman statesman.

1899 Academy 8 Apr. 408/2 Throwing bread to the sea-gulls, she says, ‘In gull-land they don't like bread, but it's a point of honour to catch it.’

1940 J. F. Baddeley Rugged Flanks Caucasus II. xxii. 220 This ceremonial observance is..a point of honour with the Kabardán nobility.

1992 Harper's Mag. July 52 My father..had made it a point of honor that I join him on the picket line, civil rights being nothing less than the religion of our household.

单词	point of honour
释义	> as lemmas point of honour point of honour n. [after Middle French, French point d'honneur (1540)] a matter regarded as vitally affecting one's honour; (hence) an obligation to demand satisfaction (originally and esp. by a duel) for a wrong or an insult. ΘΚΠ society > morality > virtue > honourableness > [noun] > point of honour point of honour1592 pundonora1648 pique of honour1687 1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Luke xiv. f. clxxxiii They make haste vnto the graue, carrying with them the spieces and swete sauours..to bestowe this same as the laste poynte of honour that euer they shoulde shewe vnto hym beeyng now dead.] 1592 G. Harvey Fovr Lett., & Certaine Sonnets ii. 7 What horrible slaughterdome haue bene committed, for the point of Honour, and some few Courtly cerimonies? 1612 E. Grimeston tr. Turquet Gen. Hist. Spain xxvii. 971 (margin) Moderne combats and the Maximes of the point of honour at this day. 1656 B. Harris tr. J. N. de Parival Hist. Iron Age i. ii. x. 52 Points of honour make them runne into the Field..in such sort, as that the greatest part of the Nobility unhappily falls in Duels. 1703 tr. A. de Courtin Treat. Honour ii, in tr. A. de Courtin Rules Civility (rev. ed.) 233 When we say a Point of Honour, we mean a Rule, a Law, and a Maxim of Honour. 1782 W. Cowper Conversation in Poems 220 The point of honour has been deemed of use, To teach good manners and to curb abuse. 1850 C. Merivale Hist. Romans under Empire II. xiii. 62 To obey the call of the commonwealth was the point of honour with the Roman statesman. 1899 Academy 8 Apr. 408/2 Throwing bread to the sea-gulls, she says, ‘In gull-land they don't like bread, but it's a point of honour to catch it.’ 1940 J. F. Baddeley Rugged Flanks Caucasus II. xxii. 220 This ceremonial observance is..a point of honour with the Kabardán nobility. 1992 Harper's Mag. July 52 My father..had made it a point of honor that I join him on the picket line, civil rights being nothing less than the religion of our household. extracted from pointn.¹ < as lemmas
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