单词 | principled |
释义 | principledadj. 1. Instructed in, imbued with, holding, or motivated by certain principles; taking a position on principle; that is so or such on principle.Sometimes passing into 2, esp. in parasynthetic compounds, as high-principled, honest-principled, right-principled, etc. Cf. well-principled adj. a. In predicative use. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > school of thought > [adjective] > holding accepted beliefs sound1526 well-believing1529 orthodoxal1593 principled1635 orthodox1645 maxim1674 1635 W. Jemmat in T. Taylor Princ. Christian Pract. Ep. Ded. sig. A4 This is the disposition, and these the behaviours of a Christian well principled and bottomed. 1642 J. Milton Apol. Smectymnuus 21 He shall be to me so as I finde him principl'd. 1657 S. Titus Killing noe Murder 12 What are the people in Generall but Knaues, Fooles, and Cowards; principled for Ease, vice, and Slavery? 1700 T. Brown Amusem. Serious & Comical x. 126 Poets are better Principled than to hoard up Trash. 1712 G. Berkeley Passive Obed. To Rdr. sig. A2 Take care they go into the World well Principled. 1799 G. Washington Let. in Writings (1893) XIV. 196 I am principled against this kind of traffic in the human species. 1829 J. K. Paulding Tales Good Woman xiii. 136 He speculated in lottery tickets, but he was principled against all sorts of gambling. 1886 J. Ruskin Præterita I. xii. 423 She was firm, and fiery, and high principled. 1905 E. M. Forster Where Angels fear to Tread vii. 224 [The baby] was to be Low Church, it was to be high-principled, it was to be tactful, gentlemanly, artistic,—excellent things all. 1926 A. Conan Doyle Firm of Girdlestone 189 I believe you to be hard-working and right-principled. 1990 Planet 82 Aug. 91 He is an unselfconscious, natural Cymro of the old school, though principled and uncompromising. b. In attributive use. ΚΠ 1647 J. Wildman Cal to all Souldiers 3 Ye have Justice and necessity on your side, which will powerfully draw all free-principled men of all estates and conditions unto you. 1655 in E. Nicholas Nicholas Papers (1892) II. 279 I think him..a very honest, right principled man in the mayne. 1736 A. Pope Let. 30 Dec. (1960) 301 He seems a settled and principled philosopher, thanking fortune for the tranquillity he has by her aversion. 1774 Child of Nature II. 224 A Knave, Fanny, is a principled impostor, who, guided by self-interest,..acts in defiance to the Law. 1846 W. Urwick J. Howe 29 Though a principled Nonconformist, he was on intimate terms with Tillotson. 1849 C. Brontë Shirley I. vi. 105 The reports which were known to be true concerning him, had given an air of probability to those which were falsely circulated respecting his better-principled brother. 1979 Maclean's 26 Feb. 24/3 Davie Fulton arrived in Ottawa in 1945 and carved a 20-year reputation as a principled Red Tory who has a special touch for attracting bright political talent. 1988 P. Gay Freud i. 38 Freud was not just an indifferent unbeliever but a principled atheist. 2. Having good or right principles; acting in accordance with morality, showing recognition of right and wrong; upright, honourable. Opposed to unprincipled. ΘΚΠ society > morality > virtue > righteousness or rectitude > [adjective] righteOE righteouseOE right-doingOE rightfullOE justc1384 rekenc1400 justfulc1425 upright1530 right-up1539 right-minded1574 principled1697 well-minded1824 unwrongful1876 1697 C. 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? 1758 J. Home Agis ii. i. 25 These trying times rear up a few More excellent, refin'd, and conscious spirits, More principled, and fit for all events, Than any in the good, but equal, mass Of a far better age. 1785 G. A. Bellamy Apol. Life IV. 63 He was the most principled man I ever was acquainted with. 1828 T. Flint Life & Adventures Arthur Clenning II. ii. 197 I am not sir,..what you once knew, a giddy and thoughtless girl, but a principled and virtuous wife and mother. 1856 W. Bagehot Biogr. Stud. 36 To expect..a principled statesman from such a position, would be expecting German from a Parisian or plainness from a diplomatist. 1979 Guardian 24 Feb. 10/5 The notion that the principled man is..worthy of the highest respect is embedded in our..literature. 1999 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 4 Feb. 45/4 Though his skills and popularity led to a great career as a principled and ‘impurchaseable’ politician, Sheridan never came into his own as a power. 3. Of an action, belief, etc.: founded on or involving a principle; instilled into or settled in the mind as a principle. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > [adjective] > based on belief principled1748 1748 S. Richardson Clarissa VI. civ. 347 Your whole conduct, Madam, has been so nobly principled, and your resentments are so admirably just, that you appear to me even in a divine light. 1805 A. A. Opie Adeline Mowbray II. iv. 162 Nor was it likely that even his self-denial and principled benevolence could endure with patience so cruel a disappointment. 1824 R. Southey Bk. of Church (1841) 526 A steady and principled resistance. 1866 H. Bushnell Vicarious Sacrifice ii. iii. 171 That the love is a principled love, grounded in immovable convictions of right. 1933 C. Hollis Erasmus x. 152 The patronage of [Pope] Julius, the great master of Bramante, Michelangelo and Rafael, was a principled patronage; Leo's was dilettante. 1985 S. Hood Storm from Paradise (1988) 97 One must understand that even the most apparently trivial issues could give rise to a principled stand. 2003 Observer 5 Oct. i. 21/6 Her principled resignation from teaching at Cambridge when a male-to-female transsexual was appointed Fellow at her women-only college. 4. Based on principles or rules; (esp. of a system, method, etc.) guided by technical principles; not arbitrary or ad hoc. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > [adjective] > specific types or features of linguistic analysis paradigmatic1891 realizational1904 non-distinctive1916 principled1919 binary1921 over-differentiated1927 marked1933 unmarked1933 isomorphic1937 nuclear1937 contrastive1940 metalinguistic1941 metalingual1942 componential1947 linear1955 rewrite1960 unordered1960 taxonomic1962 non-binary1971 1919 Internat. Jrnl. Ethics 29 466 To what degree..is it the proper business of the state to..promote morality? It is notoriously difficult to answer this in a principled way. 1961 Harvard Law Rev. 75 70 There seems to be no way to tailor a full suit of principled rules specially for congressional investigations. 1968 P. 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. 1970 Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics 16 i. 3 Both factions agree on what constitutes the natural domain of linguistics:..the principled explanation of sound-meaning relations in languages. 1989 Amer. Speech 64 196 In essence, there is no principled reason to exclude DM's from a description of the English Aux while including other regional phenomena. 1997 A. Barnett This Time vi. 178 The question of how to elect a second chamber should follow from a principled definition of what we want it to do. Derivatives ˈprincipledness n. the quality of being principled; uprightness. ΘΚΠ society > morality > virtue > [noun] virtuec1230 morality1593 moralness1637 squareness1642 principledness1954 1954 Soviet Stud. 6 99 He speaks strongly about the lack of independence and principledness in criticism. 1999 St. Louis (Missouri) Post-Dispatch (Nexis) 28 Oct. a1 There is a principledness to the way he's conducting his life. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1635 |
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