| 单词 | in honour |
| 释义 | > as lemmasin honour P2. in honour: according to the moral principles imperative in one's position, or to some conventional standard of behaviour; as a moral responsibility (occasionally implying that there is no legal obligation; cf. debt of honour n.). Frequently collocated with bound (cf. honour bound adj. at Compounds 1c). ΘΚΠ society > morality > duty or obligation > [phrase] > as a moral duty in honour1572 1572 Treat. Treasons against Q. Elizabeth ii. f. 160v The Pope and other Princes of Italie, thought themselues bound, both in honour and iustice, to assiste the same King in those his Ciuile warres. ?1592 Trag. Solyman & Perseda i. sig. E1v Why so, I am in honour bound to combat him. 1609 W. Shakespeare Louers Complaint in Sonnets sig. K3v Finding my selfe in honour so forbidde. 1654 E. Wolley tr. ‘G. de Scudéry’ Curia Politiæ 40 His Master esteemed himselfe obliged in honour to requite the injury. 1738 J. Swift Compl. Coll. Genteel Conversat. p. xxxvi Young Ladies under Twenty..being in Honour obliged to blush. 1796 F. Burney Camilla IV. ii. 19 ‘Certainly,’ she cried, ‘you cannot, in honour, now refuse him.’ 1837 T. Lewin Pract. Treat. Law Trusts & Trustees xviii. 361 Honorary Trustees..[are] bound in honour only to decide on the most proper and prudential course. 1849 G. Grote Hist. Greece V. ii. xxxviii. 6 A new king of Persia was in honour obliged to enlarge the boundaries of his empire. 1903 H. James Ambassadors xvi. 216 You can't in honor not see him. 1927 J. B. S. Haldane Possible Worlds 244 He proposed, as he was in honour bound, to support the defeated Greeks against the Turks. 1971 New Scientist 7 Jan. 17/1 Having joined it [sc. the union], he must in honour abide by its disciplines. 2001 A. J. Dommen Indochinese Experience of French & Americans 334 The government had been obliged in honor to resign. < as lemmas |
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