princelike
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a word derived from
prince.
princenouna nonreigning male member of a royal family.
Example Sentences
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Jemmy lifted his chin arrogantly and tried to look as princelike as possible.
From "The Whipping Boy" by Sid Fleischman
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It was not an Indian head, but, in the union of sweetness and strength with a princelike, childlike dignity, very happily expressive of his idea of her character.
From At Home And Abroad Or, Things And Thoughts In America and Europe by Arthur B. Fuller
Ay, somewhat; but your Philip Is the most princelike Prince beneath the sun.
From Queen Mary and Harold by Alfred Tennyson, Baron Tennyson
Mr. Magrath has been with us these two or three days, and has seen his ward, Hamlet, behave most princelike on Newark Hill and elsewhere.
From Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume V (of 10) by J. G. (John Gibson) Lockhart
Say, behold did ye euer her Angelike face, Like to Phoebe fayre? or her heauenly hauour And the princelike grace that in her remaineth? haue yee the like seene?
From The Poems and Fragments of Catullus by Robinson Ellis