| 词汇 | word of honor |
| 词源 | word of honor. One might think that this phrase, for “a sol- emn promise,” goes back to those days when knighthood was in flower. But so far as is known it only dates to 1814, when it is recorded in Donat H. O’Brien’s Narrative Containing an Ac- count of His Shipwreck, Captivity and Escape from France: “They suspected we were deserters . . . We assured them upon our word of honour, they were very much mistaken. |
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