vœun.

/vʊ/

Forms: Plural vœux /vø/.

Etymology: French, lit. ‘vow, wish’: see vow n.

A recommendation made by an international conference, which is not mandatory.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > advice > [noun] > other types of advice

sunder-reda1325

mentorism1889

vœu1917

1917 E. Satow Guide to Diplomatic Pract. II. xxvi. 142 A recommendation (vœu)..respecting the liquor trade was adopted.

1936 R. C. K. Ensor England, 1870–1914 xii. 420 A preamble like that..enacts nothing. It is only a vœu.

1939 H. Nicolson Diplomacy 250 Voeux. It sometimes happens that a conference wishes to add to its treaty certain ‘recommendations’ for future good conduct. These are called ‘wishes’ or ‘voeux’. Thus the Hague Peace Conference of 1899 emitted six ‘voeux’. These have no binding force upon the signatories.

1961 A. J. Marder From Dreadnought to Scapa Flow I. vi. 133 Sir Edward Fry..presented a pious voeu,..declaring it was ‘highly desirable that the Governments should resume the serious study of this question’.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online June 2018).

单词	vœu
释义	vœun. /vʊ/ Forms: Plural vœux /vø/. Etymology: French, lit. ‘vow, wish’: see vow n. A recommendation made by an international conference, which is not mandatory. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > advice > [noun] > other types of advice sunder-reda1325 mentorism1889 vœu1917 1917 E. Satow Guide to Diplomatic Pract. II. xxvi. 142 A recommendation (vœu)..respecting the liquor trade was adopted. 1936 R. C. K. Ensor England, 1870–1914 xii. 420 A preamble like that..enacts nothing. It is only a vœu. 1939 H. Nicolson Diplomacy 250 Voeux. It sometimes happens that a conference wishes to add to its treaty certain ‘recommendations’ for future good conduct. These are called ‘wishes’ or ‘voeux’. Thus the Hague Peace Conference of 1899 emitted six ‘voeux’. These have no binding force upon the signatories. 1961 A. J. Marder From Dreadnought to Scapa Flow I. vi. 133 Sir Edward Fry..presented a pious voeu,..declaring it was ‘highly desirable that the Governments should resume the serious study of this question’. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < n.1917
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