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单词 woman of honour
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woman of honour
woman of honour n. a woman who has a strong sense of honour and uses this to guide her actions; an honourable woman; (also) a woman of high rank (now chiefly historical).
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1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VII f. xxxviij Cicile Duches of Yorke..a woman of small stature, but of muche honour and high parentage.]
1556 M. Huggarde Displaying of Protestantes (new ed.) f. 75v Montanus..first with money corrupted manye women of honoure and great substance.
1566 W. Painter tr. O. Landi Delectable Demaundes f. 96v A woman of honor is no runner out of the dores, but kepeth her selfe within her house.
1671 Duchess of Newcastle Natures Picture (ed. 2) 179 Twenty such like tricks, which no Woman of Honour can like.
1715 J. Vanbrugh tr. F. C. Dancourt Country House ii. 22 You must behave your self like a Woman of Honour, and keep your Word.
a1823 A. Radcliffe Gaston de Blondeville (1826) II. 29 Within, amongst these ladies and women of honour, were forty wax lights, so that they might be seen and known..by every one in the court.
1852 Blackwood's Mag. May 592/1 In paying the debt himself, and saving her from arrest, he conferred on her the obligation which no woman of honour could accept.
1903 N. W. Stephenson Eleanor Dayton xiii. 128 You will act like women of honour, who have birth and breeding behind you—not like nursery maids.
2009 Assoc. Press State & Local Wire (Nexis) 22 Oct. Everything I have submitted..is 100 percent factual... I am a woman of honor. This is not a personal vendetta.
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