Hobbes

[hobz]

noun

1. Thomas, 1588–1679, English philosopher and author.

Hobbes

/ hɒbz /

noun

1. Thomas. 1588–1679, English political philosopher. His greatest work is the Leviathan (1651), which contains his defence of absolute sovereignty

Other Word Forms

• Hobbesian noun

Example Sentences

Some historians find its origins in the secular individualism of the 18th-century Enlightenment, or in the earlier political thought of John Locke or Thomas Hobbes.

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The founders of these micronations — in the 2000s quite a few dot-com tycoons — were usually men of means, steeped in Ayn Rand and Thomas Hobbes.

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As journalist Michael Hobbes pointed out on Bluesky, however, such rhetoric is one of the fig leaves vaccine critics use "to make their ideas seem palatable."

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In the seventeenth century, Thomas Hobbes pegged laughter as the companion of scorn.

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In the first ‘Sex and the City’ movie, released in 2008, Cynthia Nixon’s Miranda Hobbes exasperatedly acknowledges the trend: “That’s it?!” she says, aghast as the costume options in a store.

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