warrior code
Fighter's honor system
A warrior code is a set of principles governing conduct in combat and military life—rules about honor, loyalty, courage, and treatment of enemies.
Historical examples include bushido in Japan and chivalry in medieval Europe.
The phrase often appears in discussions of martial traditions or fictional warriors: The Mandalorian follows an ancient warrior code.
It implies discipline and ethical constraints even amid violence.
- self-sacrificeSurrendering for others' benefit
- bushidoSamurai honor system
- noble deathHonorable, selfless dying
- disciplineTrained self-control or specialty
- honorHigh regard, moral dignity
courage · loyalty · spartan · perseverance · comitatus · band of brothers · justice · martial tradition · ancient tradition · humility · integrity · samurai · responsibility · stoicism · omertà · sworn oath · oaths · noblesse oblige
- Sengoku Japandaimyo, samurai, Tokugawa Ieyasu, feudal lords, warlords
- chivalryknighthood, knights, chivalry, medieval knights, honor
- honorhonor, personal honor, word of honor, family honor, national honor
- warrior traitsswordsmanship, archery, bravery, valor, honor
- Bushidobushido, samurai ethics, seppuku, harakiri, seven virtues
- Feudal Asiashogun, daimyo, samurai, shogunate, feudal lord
warrior codedishonor
Loss of respect
cowardice · treachery · win at all costs · Machiavellianism · betrayal
warrior codecivil code
Codified private law system
civilian life · bourgeois values · domestic law · monastic rule · professional ethics
warrior codetotal war
Conflict engaging entire nations
barbarity · savagery · lawlessness · war crimes · atrocity