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principled, ppl. a.|ˈprɪnsɪp(ə)ld|
[f. prec. + -ed1, but in later use as if f. principle n. + -ed2.]
1. Imbued with or established in principles; trained or instructed in certain principles of action; holding or habitually actuated by particular principles; that is so or such on principle. Often in parasynthetic combs., as high-principled, honest-principled, right-principled.
a. In predicate, or following its noun.
1642Milton Apol. Smect. Wks. 1851 III. 277 He shall be to me so as I finde him principl'd. 1657Titus Killing no Murder 12 What are the people in Generall but Knaues, Fooles, and Cowards; principled for Ease, vice, and Slavery? 1700T. Brown Amusem. Ser. & Com. 126 Poets are better Principled than to hoard up Trash. 1712Berkeley Passive Obedience To Rdr., Take care they go into the world well principled. 1799Washington Lett. Writ. 1893 XIV. 196, I am principled against this kind of traffic in the human species. 1886Ruskin Præterita I. 423 She was firm, and fiery, and high principled.
b. In attributive relation, preceding its noun.
1655Nicholas Papers (Camden) II. 279, I think him..a very honest, right principled man in the mayne. a1744Pope (J.), He seems a settled and principled philosopher, thanking fortune for the tranquillity he has by her aversion. 1774tr. Helvetius' Child of Nature II. 224 A Knave, Fanny, is a principled impostor, who, guided by self-interest,..acts in defiance to the Law. 1846Urwick J. Howe 29 Though a principled Nonconformist, he was on intimate terms with Tillotson.
2. Having good or right principles; actuated by moral considerations; devoted to rectitude; upright, honourable. (The opposite of unprincipled.)
1697C. Leslie Snake in Grass (ed. 2) 224 Now let any honest-Hearted People judge, whether these be found Principled Men, that can Turn, Conform, and Transform to every Change according to the Times. 1785G. A. Bellamy Apology, etc. IV. 63 He was the most principled man I ever was acquainted with. 1856Bagehot Biog. Stud. 36 To expect..a principled statesman from such a position, would be expecting German from a Parisian or plainness from a diplomatist.
3. Founded on or involving a principle; instilled into or settled in the mind as a principle.
1784J. Barry in Lect. Paint. (1848) I. 73 A loose mechanical abridgment..of the other more entire, principled, and more perfect art. 1824Southey Bk. of Ch. (1841) 526 A steady and principled resistance. 1865Bushnell Vicar. Sacr. ii. iii. 127 That the love is a principled love, grounded in immovable convictions of right.
4. Based on or guided by (technical) principles or rules; not arbitrary or ad hoc.
1968P. M. Postal Aspects Phonol. Theory iii. 47 The one principled way to make such a choice independently of the grammar..is to pick one of the several representations which eliminate all phonetically predictable features. 1970Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics XVI. i. 3 Both factions agree on what constitutes the natural domain of linguistics:..the principled explanation of sound-meaning relations in languages. 1972Language XLVIII. 301 It is interesting that there is a principled basis for choosing, in certain types of circumstances, a rule with a global environment over a corresponding non-global rule plus an ordering statement. 1978Ibid. LIV. 410 As there is no principled way to prevent base rules from generating intransitive prepositions in any PP position, 5c could be base-generated, given E's base rules.
Add: Hence ˈprincipledness n., the quality of being principled; uprightness.
1969E. Goffman Where Action Is 162 The sudden high cost of correct behaviour may serve only to confirm his principledness. 1984Daily Tel. 13 Feb. 5/2 Every publication, every article should fascinate and convince the readers by its grasp of life and principledness, keen thought and vivid style. |