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单词 high-principled
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high-principled
high-principled adj.
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1648 N. Cowling Word to LII London Ministers 13 Those people..being no higher principled than in the carnall commandement of godlinesse given by Moses.]
1709 W. Stephens Modest Reply to Unanswerable Answer 12 All those high-principled Prerogative-Men, who have distinguish'd themselves by the Characteristick of Loyalty, have ever been distinguish'd also by offering up Incense to Popery.
1875 J. H. Ewing Six to Sixteen iv. 35 Things which have made high-principled Eleanor stand aghast.
1902 ‘M. Twain’ in N. Amer. Rev. May 615 The high-principled newspaper adds a daily betterment to the character-fabric of another million.
2002 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 23 May 72/4 Book reviewing then was lively but not high-principled: backs were scratched or tomahawked, and merit did not always decide which.
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