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principled

adj
/ˈpɹɪnsɪpəld/

Etymology

From principle + -ed.

  1. derived from *preh₂-✻
  2. derived from prīncipium
  3. derived from principe
  4. inherited from principle
  5. suffixed as principled — “principle + ed”

Definitions

  1. Based on, having, or manifesting principles

    • Governors had need be well principled.
    • While most of these efforts have focused on compressing the uplink, none of them provide a principled solution to compressing the downlink.

  2. simple past and past participle of principle

The neighborhood

Derived

misprincipled, nonprincipled, principledly, principledness

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at principled. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at principled. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at principled

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA