Definition of principle

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Principle (n.) A settled rule of action; a governing law of conduct; an opinion or belief which exercises a directing influence on the life and behavior; a rule (usually, a right rule) of conduct consistently directing one's actions; as, a person of no principle..

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Turncoat :: Turncoat (n.) One who forsakes his party or his principles; a renegade; an apostate.
Unscrupulous :: Unscrupulous (a.) Not scrupulous; unprincipled.
Conventionalizw :: Conventionalizw (v. t.) To represent according to an established principle, whether religious or traditional, or based upon certain artistic rules of supposed importance..
Exclusionism :: Exclusionism (n.) The character, manner, or principles of an exclusionist..
Unity :: Unity (n.) In dramatic composition, one of the principles by which a uniform tenor of story and propriety of representation are preserved; conformity in a composition to these; in oratory, discourse, etc., the due subordination and reference of every part to the development of the leading idea or the eastablishment of the main proposition..
Element :: Element (n.) One of the simplest or essential parts or principles of which anything consists, or upon which the constitution or fundamental powers of anything are based..
Antiarin :: Antiarin (n.) A poisonous principle obtained from antiar.
Elementary :: Elementary (a.) Pertaining to, or treating of, the elements, rudiments, or first principles of anything; initial; rudimental; introductory; as, an elementary treatise..
Esotericism :: Esotericism (n.) Esoteric doctrine or principles.
Statesman :: Statesman (n.) A man versed in public affairs and in the principles and art of government; especially, one eminent for political abilities..
Metaphysics :: Metaphysics (n.) The science of real as distinguished from phenomenal being; ontology; also, the science of being, with reference to its abstract and universal conditions, as distinguished from the science of determined or concrete being; the science of the conceptions and relations which are necessarily implied as true of every kind of being; phylosophy in general; first principles, or the science of first principles..
Navigation :: Navigation (n.) the science or art of conducting ships or vessels from one place to another, including, more especially, the method of determining a ship's position, course, distance passed over, etc., on the surface of the globe, by the principles of geometry and astronomy..
Empyrical :: Empyrical (a.) Containing the combustible principle of coal.
Constitutionalism :: Constitutionalism (n.) The theory, principles, or authority of constitutional government; attachment or adherence to a constitution or constitutional government..
Scientific :: Scientific (a.) Agreeing with, or depending on, the rules or principles of science; as, a scientific classification; a scientific arrangement of fossils..
Sans-culottism :: Sans-culottism (n.) Extreme republican principles; the principles or practice of the sans-culottes.
Backbone :: Backbone (n.) Firmness; moral principle; steadfastness.
Lupulin :: Lupulin (n.) A bitter principle extracted from hops.
Hermeneutically :: Hermeneutically (adv.) According to the principles of interpretation; as, a verse of Scripture was examined hermeneutically..
Try :: Try (v. t.) To examine or investigate judicially; to examine by witnesses or other judicial evidence and the principles of law; as, to try a cause, or a criminal..
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