"fons honorum" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "Latin: fōns (“fount, source”) + honōrum (“of honours”; the genitive plural form of honor (“honour”)) = “source of honours” ≈ “fount of honour”",
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          "ref": "1973, Luciano Petech, Aristocracy and Government in Tibet, 1728–1959, page 27",
          "text": "In 1919 Pʻun-kʻaṅ taiji bKra-śis-rdo-rje was appointed kung, the only attempt by the Dalai-Lama to succede the defunct Chinese Ch’ing dynasty as fons honorum.",
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