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honour bright

honour bright interjection: a minor oath of, or appeal to, honour or sincerity.

Interjection

  1. (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

Forms of honour bright

alternative formhonor bright

Questions about honour bright

What does honour bright mean?
Honour bright means a minor oath of, or appeal to, honour or sincerity.
What part of speech is honour bright?
Honour bright is an interjection.

Words near honour bright in the dictionary

  1. honour among thieves
  2. honour bar
  3. honour bars
  4. honour box
  5. honour boxes
  6. honour bright
  7. honour card
  8. honour cards
  9. honour guard
  10. honour guards
  11. honour in the breach

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