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Debt of honor

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a debt contracted by a verbal promise, or by betting or gambling, considered more binding than if recoverable by law.

See also: Honor



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" "Then," said the creditor, "I change my debt into a debt of honor," and tore the note in pieces.
Essays, Second Series by Emerson, Ralph Waldo View in context
Gobseck, Werdet, and Gigonnet swallowed the profits, but des Lupeaulx had agreed that they should have them; he was not playing for a stake; he challenged the bank, as it were, knowing very well that the king was not a man to forget this debt of honor.
Bureaucracy by de Balzac, Honore View in context
It was a debt of honor, so called, which I had to pay, and I used money which was not my own to do it, in the certainty that I could replace it before there could be any possibility of its being missed.
Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan View in context
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