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Definition of In principle
1. Adverb. With regard to fundamentals although not concerning details. "In principle, we agree"
Definition of In principle
1. Adverb. With regard to the fundamentals, but not to the particulars. ¹
2. Adverb. According to theory. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of In Principle
Literary usage of In principle
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1912)
"to the cases of official bonds, under circumstances undistinguishable in principle
from the present. U. 8. v. Prescott, 3 How. 578; US v. Dashiel, 4 Wall. ..."
2. English Constitutional History from the Teutonic Conquest to the Present Time by Thomas Pitt Taswell-Langmead (1905)
"Difference in principle between the two p »rties. Failure of the Exclusion Hill
and prostration of the Whigs. Despotic power of But although the Whigs and ..."
3. The Works of Hannah More: With a Sketch of Her Life by Hannah More (1827)
"¡rood sense, so in morals it should have its substratum in principle. But if any
one thinks that merely by retiring from the world, he shall get rid ol his ..."
4. The Law of Railways: Embracing Corporations, Eminent Domain, Contracts by Isaac Fletcher Redfield (1867)
"The objection, in principle, to a tax of this kind is, that it is a special
imposition upon a limited class of property, easily destroyed. VI. ..."
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