pundonorn.
/ˈpʌndənɔː/, /ˌpʌndəˈnɔː/, U.S. /ˌpəndəˈnɔr/ In Spain or Spanish contexts: (originally) (with plural) a point of honour; (in later use) adherence to a code of honour; dignity, self-respect.
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society > morality > virtue > honourableness > [noun] > point of honour
point of honour1592
pundonora1648
pique of honour1687
a1648 Ld. Herbert Life (1976) 100 The Spaniards stand soe much vpon theire Pundonores.
a1648 Ld. Herbert Life Henry VIII (1649) 206 And this was the end of the Cartells and Pundonnores betwixt these two great Princes.
1761 Earl of Bristol Let. 28 Sept. in Papers relative Rupture with Spain (1762) 19 It would serve as a Salvo to the Spaniards Pundonor for entering into a Negotiation.
1829 W. Irving Chron. Conq. Granada I. xxxvi. 330 They stood not much upon the pundonor and high punctilio.
1870 R. H. Busk Patrañas 201 His fathers for generations had been known throughout the district for men of undoubted pundonor, by which word Spaniards express scrupulous nicety of honourable conduct.
1932 E. Hemingway Death in Afternoon xviii. 210 His..body contains enough valour and pundonor to make a dozen bullfighters.
1968 Medium Ævum 37 46 Nor do I think we have a right to assume that the sculptors followed epic pundonor so closely.
1991 T. Mitchell Blood Sport ii. 78 To leave the bullring with the bull still alive would have infringed Espartero's pundonor.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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