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Definition of High-principled
1. Adjective. Having high principles.
Lexicographical Neighbors of High-principled
Literary usage of High-principled
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The British Quarterly Review by Robert Vaughan, Henry Allon (1869)
"The characters of Erick and Maurice are well discriminated—the former high-principled
and resolute ; : the latter by no means without principle, ..."
2. De finibus bonorum et malorum by Marcus Tullius Cicero (1914)
"... consistent and high- principled throughout their lives, ruling their conduct
by duty and not by pleasure,—all this does but enforce the value of moral ..."
3. Four Letters on the Proposals for Peace with the Regicide Directory of France by Edmund Burke, Edward John Payne (1892)
"16, which is explained by the want of high-principled leaders, p. 18. The peculiar
character of a war with a Regicide State, p. 19. ..."
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