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Definition
a basic rule or belief
The exact meaning of principle can depend upon its context. For example:
- "our guiding principles" — basic moral beliefs that guide decisions and behavior
- "electromagnetic principles" — rules describing how the world works
- "She lacks principles." — lacks moral guidelines
- "We agree in principle." — about important basic beliefs
- I like persons better than principles.Chapter 1 (65% in)
- He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.Chapter 3 (3% in)
- He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.Chapter 3 (3% in)
- She has not merely art, consummate art-instinct, in her, but she has personality also; and you have often told me that it is personalities, not principles, that move the age.Chapter 3 (71% in)
- The consequence is that he has nothing left for life but his prejudices, his principles, and his common sense.Chapter 3 (77% in)
- He sought to elaborate some new scheme of life that would have its reasoned philosophy and its ordered principles and find in the spiritualizing of the senses its highest realization.Chapter 9 (16% in)
- I do it on principle.Chapter 13 (36% in)
There are no more uses of "principle" in Picture of Dorian Gray - 13 chapter version.
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