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- adjective
comparative form ofprincely : moreprincely
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Examples
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For one fleeting night a princelier nature captures us, and we become as great as our aspirations.
The World I Live In Helen Keller 1924
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QUOTATION: A princelier-looking man never stept thro a princes hall.
Quotations 1919
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Nay, if we compare Pope to some of the later writers who have wrung still princelier rewards from fortune, the result is not unfavourable.
Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) Leslie Stephen 1868
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Further to add to the complexity, he loved his liberty; he was princelier free; he had more subjects, more slaves; he ruled arrogantly in the world of women; he was more himself.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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Further to add to the complexity, he loved his liberty; he was princelier free; he had more subjects, more slaves; he ruled arrogantly in the world of women; he was more himself.
The Egoist George Meredith 1868
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This creature, that looked so like a fiend, came erect into the middle of the tent with a single bound, as if that moment vomited forth by hell, and yet with a grander carriage and princelier presence than he had worn in time of peace; and even as he bounded he crossed his tomahawk and narrow wooden shield, to signify that his answer was no vulgar asseveration, but a vow of sacred war.
It Is Never Too Late to Mend Charles Reade 1849
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6875A princelier-looking man never stept thro a princes hall.
Quotations 1919
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173A princelier-looking man never stept thro a princes hall.
Quotations 1919
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