Honour

Honor (or in British English honour) comprises an indiviual's reputation, self-perception or moral identity.

Previously honor figured largely as a guiding principle of society, functioning as part of a code of honor for a gentleman and often coming to expression in the practice of duelling. One's honor, or that of one's wife, (blood-)family or beloved formed an all-important issue, but the concept appears to have declined in importance in the modern secular West. Popular stereotypes would have it surviving more definitively in alleged "hot-blooded" Mediterranean cultures (Italian, Arab, Hispanic ...).

Compare the concept of face (social custom) in stereotyped Oriental cultures, or of mana in Polynesian society.