| 单词 | parole of honour |
| 释义 | > as lemmasparole of honour b. Esp. in parole of honour. A person's word of honour given or pledged; spec. (originally Military) a promise or undertaking given by a prisoner not to escape or, if released, to return to custody under specified conditions and (if a military prisoner) to refrain from combat for a stated period, usually for the duration of a war; a release in such circumstances. Now historical. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > agreement > promise > [noun] > pledge or assurance wordOE costOE earnest1221 fayc1300 certainty1303 wager1306 plighta1325 pledge1371 assurancec1386 undertaking?a1400 faithc1405 surementc1410 to make affiancec1425 earnest pennya1438 warrant1460 trow1515 fidelity1531 stipulation1552 warranty1555 pawn1573 arrha1574 avouchment1574 assumption1590 word of honour1598 avouch1603 assecurance1616 preassurance1635 tower-stamp1642 parole of honour1648 spondence1657 honour1659 1648 Moderate No. 18. 148 The Lord Generall desired to take off the Paroll from the Scots Officers, and secure their persons: (His Excellency hath granted Paroll but to one of those many hundreds, and why must he be thus checkt for this only one civility?). 1659 in T. Burton Diary 4 Mar. (1828) IV. 6 Mr. Turner and Mr. Trevor moved that his parole might be taken. Sir Arthur Haslerigge: The word parole is a new word; I move that the Sergeant take his bond. 1698 T. Dilke Pretenders i. 4 I'll give you my parole of honour to make that man a Captain that you shall think fit to make your Husband. 1700 J. Astry tr. D. de Saavedra Fajardo Royal Politician I. 235 Aspersions..upon him for the Breach of his Parole. 1723 D. Defoe Hist. Col. Jack (ed. 2) 374 I..took their Paroles of Honour for my Safety. 1776 R. J. Meigs in J. Sparks Corr. Amer. Revol. (1853) I. 265 I arrived here the 22d instant, from Quebec, on my parole of honor, to return when called for. 1852 H. B. Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin I. xiv. 208 For some time Tom had enjoyed a sort of parole of honor, being permitted to come and go freely where he pleased. 1880 W. H. Dixon Royal Windsor (ed. 3) IV. xxviii. 259 They had broken their parole and fled. 1909 Chatterbox 362/2 As a prisoner of war, give me your parole. 1999 D. Crane Lord Byron's Jackal x. 221 Considering himself absolved from his parole, he followed up his letter to Hamilton in person. < as lemmas |
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