Hobbes

//hɒbz// name

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  1. 1
    A surname originating as a patronymic.
  2. 2
    A surname originating as a patronymic.; Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679), English philosopher.

    "Masters and men, according to Mr. Thornton, fatally confront each other in something like Hobbes’s misanthropically imagined state of nature, with nothing but force, or the fear of force in the background […]"

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philosopherthomas hobbes

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"Masters and men, according to Mr. Thornton, fatally confront each other in something like Hobbes’s misanthropically imagined state of nature, with nothing but force, or the fear of force in the background […]"

Etymology

From a medieval diminutive form of the given name Robert + the patronymic suffix -s.

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