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单词 reason of state
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reason of State
reason of State n. a purely political ground of action on the part of a ruler or government, esp. as involving expediency or some departure from strict justice, honesty, or open dealing; also as a mass noun. [Apparently after either Italian ragione di stato (a1558) or French raison d'état (although this is apparently only attested slightly later: see raison d'état n.).]
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reason of State1585
public reason1667
raison d'état1838
1585 R. Parsons Christian Directorie i. Pref. f. 17v This only reason of state holdeth many of their side, from comming to vs, who otherwise in conscience would haue no scrupule at al.
1600 E. Blount tr. G. F. di Conestaggio Hist. Uniting Portugall to Castill 6 According vnto reason of State.
1622 F. Bacon Hist. Raigne Henry VII 3 As if the King..were become effeminate and lesse sensible of Honour, and Reason of State, then was fit for a King.
1660 R. Coke Elements Power & Subjection 116 in Justice Vindicated King Charles had not the same Reason of State to indulge the House of Commons.
1735 Visct. Bolingbroke Lett. Study Hist. (1752) ii. 39 The notion of attaching men to the new government..was a reason of state to some.
1756 E. Burke Vindic. Nat. Society 38 The Whole of this Mystery of Iniquity is called the Reason of State. It is a Reason, which I own I cannot penetrate.
1797 E. Burke Lett. Peace Regic. France iii, in Wks. (1815) VIII. 273 But reason of state and common sense are two things.
1839 W. O. Manning Comm. Law Nations vi. viii. 157 Reasons of state sometimes induced a monarch to refuse all ransom for a prisoner.
1897 J. Morley Machiavelli 40 The most imposing of all incarnations of the doctrine that reason of State covers all, is Napoleon.
1926 Times 14 July 13/1 These trials are, without exception, held in secret, avowedly for reasons of State.
1991 J. Sherr Soviet Power (ed. 2) 89 Prudence, amour propre and ‘reason of state’ give the Party an interest in maintaining its pre-eminence in both the military-technical and military-political realms.
2006 Independent (Nexis) 25 Feb. 39 The Royal Family is obliged for reasons of state to remain neutral.
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