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单词 unprincipal
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unprincipaladj.

Forms: see un- prefix1 and principal adj., n., and adv.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation; originally modelled on a French lexical item. Etymons: un- prefix1, principal adj.
Etymology: < un- prefix1 + principal adj., originally after Middle French non principal (1533 in the passage translated in quot. ?1541, or earlier).
Obsolete. rare.
Not principal.
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the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > inferior person > [adjective]
unprincipal?1541
sillya1547
faulty1574
subaltern1581
suffragant1603
faulted1608
under-rate1709
?1541 R. Copland Guy de Chauliac's Questyonary Cyrurgyens ii. sig. Cij Howe many vnpryncypal [sic] membres be there? and how many vnpryncypal [Fr. quans membres y a il de principaulx et quans de non principaulx]?
1795 in Catal. Prints: Polit. & Personal Satires (Brit. Mus.) (1942) VII. 188 The Unprincipal Opposition.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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