| 单词 | to be on honour |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto be on (also upon) (one's) honour (b) Under obligation to act honourably or according to one's word of honour. Also without personal pronoun. Frequently in to be on (also upon) (one's) honour.In British use sometimes spec. with reference to members of the House of Lords who are not legally under oath. ΚΠ 1757 D. Garrick Male-coquette ii. 38 No, no; we are upon Honour—There shall be none. 1765 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. I. i. xii. 390 A peer, sitting in judgment, gives not his verdict upon oath, like an ordinary juryman, but upon his honour: he answers also to bills in chancery upon his honour. 1770 H. Brooke Fool of Quality V. 163 You are upon Honour not to reveal any thing. 1856 Bouvier's Law Dict. U.S.A. (ed. 6) I. 589 In courts of equity, peers, peeresses and lords of parliament, answer on their honor only. 1861 Rep. Educ. Destitute Children in Rep. Comm. (House of Commons) III. 37/2 They are on honour, not to ask them anything of a sectarian character. 1901 Athenæum 14 Dec. 810/1 The lame V.C...suggested to his two girls and their companions that they were ‘on honour’ to play with Meg and Pollie Watkins. 1992 N. Schwarzkopf & P. Petre It doesn't take Hero (1993) 69 There was nothing to stop those who took it [sc. a test] first from leaking the questions..—except that they were on their honour. < as lemmas |
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