In the sense Doria used it when describing what he, and indeed most European contemporaries, regarded as the single defining characteristic of Spanish culture, it implied the existence of a self-love vested in, and consequently at risk through, the persons and objects -and most particularly the persons viewed as objects, that is, the women -by which a man (for a woman's honour is merely a repository for the man's) is surrounded.

DEFINE: Clarifies the concept of honour in Spanish culture as male self-love dependent on women, who serve as repositories for male honour.

Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking…, loc. 1784