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单词 prudhommie
释义

prudhommie

English

Etymology

From Middle French preudhommie; later reborrowed from French prud'homie.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈpɹuːdɒmi/, /pɹuːdəˈmiː/

Noun

prudhommie (uncountable)

  1. (rare, now historical) Character typical of a prudhomme; trustworthiness, loyalty. [from 15th c.]
    • 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, III.12:
      Shall I say thus much by the way? That I see a certaine image of bookish or scholastical preud'hommie onely, which is in a maner in use amongst us, held and reputed in greater esteeme than it deserveth, and which is but a servant unto precepts, brought under by hope, and constrained by fear?
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