Terms vs Prudhommie - What's the difference?
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*1603 , (John Florio), translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays , III.12:
*: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?