principle
/ˈpɹɪn.sɪ.pəl/ verb C2- To equip with principles; to establish, or fix, in certain principles; to impress with any tenet or rule of conduct.
He/she/it principles · Past principled · Past participle principled · -ing form principling
Verb forms
- Base form
- principle
- He/she/it
- principles
- Past
- principled
- Past participle
- principled
- -ing form
- principling
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You shall not, for the sake of one individual, change the meaning of principle and integrity, nor endeavour to persuade yourself or me, that selfishness is prudence, and insensibility of danger security for happiness.”
Bingley did not take the house so much for the convenience of the neighbourhood as for his own, and we must expect him to keep or quit it on the same principle.”
The vicious propensities, the want of principle, which he was careful to guard from the knowledge of his best friend, could not escape the observation of a young man of nearly the same age with himself, and who had opportunities of seeing him in unguarded moments, which Mr.
No principle of either would be violated by my marriage with Mr.
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