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honour bright en · INTJ
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(archaic, colloquial) A minor oath of, or appeal to, honour or sincerity.
The phrase of the lowest of the people is ‘honor-bright,’ and their vulgar praise, ‘his word is as good as his bond’.
1856, Ralph Waldo Emerson, English Traits:—I didn’t mean to, honour bright. It was only for cod. I’m sorry.
1916, James Joyce, chapter I, in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, New York, N.Y.: B[enjamin] W. Huebsch, →OCLC:
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