| 单词 | affair of honour |
| 释义 | > as lemmasaffair of honour affair of honour n. now chiefly historical a prearranged contest fought with a rival in order to defend one's honour or reputation; a duel. [After French affaire d'honneur (although this is apparently first attested slightly later in this sense: 1740 or earlier; 1675 or earlier in more general sense ‘debate in which the contestants consider their honour to be at stake’).] ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > armed encounter > [noun] > single combat or duel handplayeOE deraignc1300 battlea1400 duellation1502 two-hand battlec1503 combat1567 push of pick1578 monomachy1582 combacy1586 hand fight1587 duel1589 rencounter1590 single fight1598 field meeting1603 camp-fight1605 duello1606 judicial combat1610 fight of stand?1611 stand-fight?1611 business1612 monomachia1624 single combat1625 single field1630 duelliona1637 rencontrea1722 affair of honour1737 meeting1813 holmgang1847 mensur1848 duomachy1885 1737 Gentleman's Mag. May 285/2 Prithee come to me immediately, to serve me in an Affair of Honour. 1753 J. Hanway Hist. Acct. Brit. Trade Caspian Sea II. xl. 257 The French..calling it [sc. duelling] an affair of honour. 1836 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers (1837) ii. 20 ‘I want your assistance..in an affair of honour,’ said Mr. Winkle. 1941 S. W. Patterson Horatio Gates xiv. 280 The affair of honor was handsomely staged in the presence of distinguished witnesses. 1993 D. Wood Benjamin Constant viii. 196 The young hothead was persuaded to drop his affair of honour. < as lemmas |
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