Meanings
- historicalrareuncountableCharacter typical of a prudhomme; trustworthiness, loyalty.First known use 15th c.
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?
1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, Essays, III.12
Origin
- Frenchprud'homie
- Middle Frenchpreudhommie
- Englishprudhommie
Borrowed from Middle French preudhommie; later reborrowed from Modern French prud'homie.
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