Definition of honnête homme in English:

honnête homme

noun ˌɒnɛt ˈɒmôˌnet ˈôm

A decent, cultivated man of the world; a gentleman.
正人君子，绅士
Example sentencesExamples
- The bourgeois honnêtes hommes will be glad to collect their car insurance and return to normalcy.
- They were bourgeois, gentlemen, honnêtes hommes, but their heart was with the weak ones, the oppressed ones in society.
- The fact that many of the greatest philosophers and honnêtes hommes could observe the brutality and cruelty of which humans are capable and not ‘recognize their infirmity’ or ‘even bother to try’ is evidence of human wretchedness.
- The honnête homme is not a truth-teller, but one who does ‘the right thing.’
- Or rather - so it seemed to him now - he had tried to absorb that experience the way a philosopher and a savant would have absorbed it, as if it were an idea, a notion, conforming to the demands of the limited human intellect, and had tried to adapt it to the standards of the honnête homme and the successful man of the world.
- Instead of empowering individual subjectivity to arrive at certain truth, Pascal concluded that mathematical reasoning led honnêtes hommes to recognize and accept the limits of humanity's ability to know ultimate reality.

Origin

French, literally 'honest man'.

Definition of honnête homme in US English:

honnête homme

nounôˌnet ˈôm

A decent, cultivated man of the world; a gentleman.
正人君子，绅士
Example sentencesExamples
- They were bourgeois, gentlemen, honnêtes hommes, but their heart was with the weak ones, the oppressed ones in society.
- The bourgeois honnêtes hommes will be glad to collect their car insurance and return to normalcy.
- Or rather - so it seemed to him now - he had tried to absorb that experience the way a philosopher and a savant would have absorbed it, as if it were an idea, a notion, conforming to the demands of the limited human intellect, and had tried to adapt it to the standards of the honnête homme and the successful man of the world.
- The honnête homme is not a truth-teller, but one who does ‘the right thing.’
- Instead of empowering individual subjectivity to arrive at certain truth, Pascal concluded that mathematical reasoning led honnêtes hommes to recognize and accept the limits of humanity's ability to know ultimate reality.
- The fact that many of the greatest philosophers and honnêtes hommes could observe the brutality and cruelty of which humans are capable and not ‘recognize their infirmity’ or ‘even bother to try’ is evidence of human wretchedness.

Origin

French, literally ‘honest man’.

单词	honnête homme
释义	Definition of honnête homme in English: honnête homme noun ˌɒnɛt ˈɒmôˌnet ˈôm A decent, cultivated man of the world; a gentleman. 正人君子，绅士 Example sentencesExamples The bourgeois honnêtes hommes will be glad to collect their car insurance and return to normalcy. They were bourgeois, gentlemen, honnêtes hommes, but their heart was with the weak ones, the oppressed ones in society. The fact that many of the greatest philosophers and honnêtes hommes could observe the brutality and cruelty of which humans are capable and not ‘recognize their infirmity’ or ‘even bother to try’ is evidence of human wretchedness. The honnête homme is not a truth-teller, but one who does ‘the right thing.’ Or rather - so it seemed to him now - he had tried to absorb that experience the way a philosopher and a savant would have absorbed it, as if it were an idea, a notion, conforming to the demands of the limited human intellect, and had tried to adapt it to the standards of the honnête homme and the successful man of the world. Instead of empowering individual subjectivity to arrive at certain truth, Pascal concluded that mathematical reasoning led honnêtes hommes to recognize and accept the limits of humanity's ability to know ultimate reality. Origin French, literally 'honest man'. Definition of honnête homme in US English: honnête homme nounôˌnet ˈôm A decent, cultivated man of the world; a gentleman. 正人君子，绅士 Example sentencesExamples They were bourgeois, gentlemen, honnêtes hommes, but their heart was with the weak ones, the oppressed ones in society. The bourgeois honnêtes hommes will be glad to collect their car insurance and return to normalcy. Or rather - so it seemed to him now - he had tried to absorb that experience the way a philosopher and a savant would have absorbed it, as if it were an idea, a notion, conforming to the demands of the limited human intellect, and had tried to adapt it to the standards of the honnête homme and the successful man of the world. The honnête homme is not a truth-teller, but one who does ‘the right thing.’ Instead of empowering individual subjectivity to arrive at certain truth, Pascal concluded that mathematical reasoning led honnêtes hommes to recognize and accept the limits of humanity's ability to know ultimate reality. The fact that many of the greatest philosophers and honnêtes hommes could observe the brutality and cruelty of which humans are capable and not ‘recognize their infirmity’ or ‘even bother to try’ is evidence of human wretchedness. Origin French, literally ‘honest man’.
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