word of honor
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of word of honor
First recorded in 1805–15
Example Sentences
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It's a chronicle of disappointment and loneliness, but also one of, in Elliott's word, of honor.
From Salon ● Jun. 20, 2024
Its publishers say, word of honor, that it is Virginia's work, discovered decades later in an attic trunk by her daughter.
From Time Magazine Archive
I give my word of honor: never I was communist.
From Time Magazine Archive
On his word of honor, Sir Berkeley declared that, despite German denials, bombs containing the bacilli of bubonic plague were unquestionably dropped upon troops of the British Fifth Army in 1916.
From Time Magazine Archive
“The new government guarantees on its word of honor your personal safety and that of your family.”
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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