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debt of honor

noun

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  1. An obligation, especially a gambling debt based on a verbal promise, which is not legally…

    An obligation, especially a gambling debt based on a verbal promise, which is not legally enforceable but which is considered to be secured by the debtor's moral integrity.

    • [T]his whole sum, and its amount doubled, was lost at the gaming-table. In his desire to repair his first losses, my father risked double stakes, and thus incurred a debt of honour he was wholly unable to pay.
    • "I owe this money to Sheridan; it is a debt of honor; if an accident should happen to me, he has nothing to show."

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