point of honor in English
noun
1
an action or circumstance that affects one's reputation or conscience.
he languished in jail refusing, as a point of honor, to talk
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1. Thus Montesquieu, while emphasizing the "Bizarreries" of the nobility's "point of honor," shows that the passion of the point of honor effectively sustains a vigorous disposition to liberty, since it introduces certain "necessary modifications in the obedience" due to a prince.