What does it mean to pledge your "lives, fortunes, and honor"?

Question: What does it mean to pledge your "lives, fortunes, and honor"!?

as in the last line of the declaration of independence!.!.!.!.

"And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor!."Www@QuestionHome@Com

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it means they were willing to give everything they had including their lives!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Lives and fortunes are pretty obvious, but at this time honor was regarded as not only a personal honor (knowing that you do the right thing at all times), but also as something close to reputation!. The Founders pledged their status as gentlemen with honor (a status they regarded above men with money alone)!.Www@QuestionHome@Com