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Honved|ˈhɒnveɪd|
[Hungarian, = hon home + véd defence.]
The name given to the Hungarian second-line formation during the revolutionary war of 1848–9; later also used of the militia reserve. Also, a member of either force.
1854E.O.S. Hungary & its Revolutions 429 The new army,..namely, the Honveds, National Guards, and Volunteers. 1875Encycl. Brit. II. 604/2 The Hungarian militia or ‘honveds’, as they are called. 1913Times 7 May 7/3 It [sc. an ordnance factory] will supply the needs of the Honved troops and of the Hungarian quota of the joint army and navy. 1931F. Eckhart Short Hist. Hungarian People vii. 192 At his [sc. Kossuth's] impassioned speeches, the Honvéds (Defenders of the Fatherland) assembled..round the standards of the King of Hungary. 1956C. A. Macartney October Fifteenth I. i. 15 The Magyars did not mind taking commissions in the Honvéd, which, however, was a body not much more serious than our own militia of the day. 1959D. Sinor Hist. Hungary xxix. 267 Some 152,000 Hungarian honvéd (as the soldiers of this war were called)..had to face the 1,200 guns of an enemy some 370,000 strong. 1962C. A. Macartney Hungary vii. 163 The rank and file of the Honvéd were as a rule conscripted into the Imperial forces and sent to foreign stations. |
