Hobbes
Americannoun
noun
Other Word Forms
- Hobbesian noun
Example Sentences
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Some historians find its origins in the secular individualism of the 18th-century Enlightenment, or in the earlier political thought of John Locke or Thomas Hobbes.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 24, 2025
In the seventeenth century, Thomas Hobbes pegged laughter as the companion of scorn.
From Salon • Nov. 18, 2024
And it may be that Thomas Hobbes, history’s cheery optimist, was right: “The condition of man is a condition of war of every one against every one.”
From Seattle Times • Mar. 29, 2024
The series stars Sarah Jessica Parker as columnist and voice-over legend Carrie Bradshaw, Kristin Davis as the hopeless romantic art dealer Charlotte York and Cynthia Nixon as the overworked lawyer Miranda Hobbes.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 22, 2023
Especially because I don’t precisely know who Hobbes and Rousseau are—but not knowing and admitting you don’t know are two completely different things.
From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
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