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Free sign upThe phrase "code of honour" is correct and can be used in written English.
It can be used to refer to a system of principles that is used to guide an individual's behaviour. For example, "The soldier vowed to uphold the code of honour throughout his service."
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code of honour
noun
Certain rules by which social intercourse is regulated among a social group, and which are founded on a regard for reputation.
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We have a code of honour, us, in Islam.
For once, they're living up to the code of honour they espouse.
For them the brutal but respected Pashtunwali code of honour is more important than religion.
Part code of honour among officers, part fear the prisoners would gang up with the Slavic horde from the East.
The play shows the protagonists' emancipation from the Prussian code of honour and from societal conventions of marriage.
The upright officer's conscientiousness and rigid interpretation of the code of honour has endangered his relationship with Minna.
A code of honour is broadly adhered to: no criminal damage, no sueing anyone if anything bad happens to you.
He's just a great, funny New Jersey guy with a medieval code of honour, who is very loyal.
He was well able to ignore its suppressed code of honour and adjust to a less glorious role when his conventional grand project met with defeat.
He has also remained true to his tribal code of honour, having never uttered a public word on the events which shook the nation in 1963.
Rosy Bindi, head of the parliamentary anti-mafia commission, said the murders "confirmed that there is no code of honour among mafiosi and never has been.
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