princeliness
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a word derived from
princely.
princelyadjectivegreatly liberal; lavish; magnificent.
Example Sentences
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They scramble their comic omelet with such pixy princeliness that it becomes a royal banquet of mirth.
From Time Magazine Archive
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They scramble their comic omelet with such pixy princeliness that It becomes a royal banquet of mirth.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Even then he used to throw money among the gamins, as later he scattered it in how many directions, with what liberality, and with what princeliness, and from what a slender purse!
From The Love Affairs of Great Musicians, Volume 2 by Rupert Hughes
Without doubt, nothing lends such magnificence to interiors as marbles, but they require the spaciousness and princeliness of such a château to be displayed to advantage.
From Holidays in Eastern France by Matilda Betham-Edwards
It was our desire, in our choice of paint, to do nothing likely to lessen or to detract from the lustre of the princeliness of Mr. Rock's liberality.
From The House An Episode in the Lives of Reuben Baker, Astronomer, and of His Wife, Alice by Eugene Field