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Hobbeses

Hobbeses is the plural of Hobbes.

Meaning of Hobbes

Proper noun

Hobbes (plural Hobbeses)

  1. A surname originating as a patronymic.
    1. Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679), English philosopher.
      • Masters and men, according to Mr. Thornton, fatally confront each other in something like Hobbes’s misanthropically imagined state of nature, with nothing but force, or the fear of force in the background […]1871, “Economic Fallacies and Labour Utopias”, in The Quarterly Review, volume 131, number 261, page 244

Questions about Hobbeses

What is Hobbeses the plural of?
Hobbeses is the plural of Hobbes.

Words near Hobbeses in the dictionary

  1. hobbels
  2. hobber
  3. hobber-nob
  4. hobbers
  5. Hobbes
  6. Hobbeses
  7. Hobbesian
  8. Hobbesianism
  9. Hobbesians
  10. Hobbesism
  11. Hobbesist

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