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Synonyms for principled

Grammar : Adj
Spell : prin-suh-puh ld
Phonetic Transcription : ˈprɪn sə pəld

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Définition of principled

Origin :
  • "honorable, moral," 1690s, from principle, which was used as a verb 17c.-18c. meaning "to ground in principles."
  • adj ethical
Example sentences :
  • She is principled against it, and says she will not be rung about the house like a negro.
  • Extract from : « Pencil Sketches » by Eliza Leslie
  • These also, and no others, are principled in love truly conjugial.
  • Extract from : « The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love » by Emanuel Swedenborg
  • The principled Royalists are certainly not of force to effect these objects by themselves.
  • Extract from : « The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. IV. (of 12) » by Edmund Burke
  • Every arm lifted up for royalty from the beginning was the arm of a man so principled.
  • Extract from : « The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. IV. (of 12) » by Edmund Burke
  • He was too proud willingly to live on Katie, and he was principled against labour.
  • Extract from : « An Anarchist Woman » by Hutchins Hapgood
  • Ke K'ang asked, 'What do you say about killing the unprincipled for the good of the principled?'
  • Extract from : « The Freethinker's Text Book, Part II. » by Annie Besant
  • Thousands rise, Prompt at its call, and principled to strike The tyrants and the tyrannies alike!
  • Extract from : « War Poetry of the South » by Various
  • Those who are principled in love truly conjugial, are sensible of their being a united man, and as it were one flesh.
  • Extract from : « The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love » by Emanuel Swedenborg
  • That the case is reversed with those who are not principled in conjugial love, is well known.
  • Extract from : « The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love » by Emanuel Swedenborg
  • Those who are principled in love truly conjugial, are sensible of their being a united man, as it were one flesh, n. 178.
  • Extract from : « The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love » by Emanuel Swedenborg

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