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principled

[ prin-suh-puhld ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

imbued with or having moral principles (often used in combination):
high-principled.

principled

/ ˈprɪnsɪpəld /

First recorded in 1635–45; principle + -ed ³

A principled GOP could,” said the Senator, “find people on both left and right to cooperate on issues.

He developed a reputation for principled independence that others sometimes saw as arrogance.

“We hope that the release of this exam will address the principled confusion that the new framework produced,” Coleman wrote.

It is a call to be principled and practical at the same time.

Yes, Katniss is brave, strong, and principled, but she is not purely good, or unrealistically selfless.

It was his father's mouth; it was the nose and eyes of her own mother's people—good-looking, weak-principled folk.

Those who are principled in love truly conjugial, are sensible of their being a united man, and as it were one flesh.

That the case is reversed with those who are not principled in conjugial love, is well known.

Those who are principled in love truly conjugial, are sensible of their being a united man, as it were one flesh, n. 178.

The evil in which every one is principled, is imputed to him after death; and so also the good, n. 524.

April 18, 2024petrichor

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