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  • adjective comparative form of princely: more princely

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Examples

  • 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

  • QUOTATION: A princelier-looking man never stept thro’ a prince’s hall.

    Quotations 1919

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 6875A princelier-looking man never stept thro’ a prince’s hall.

    Quotations 1919

  • 173A princelier-looking man never stept thro’ a prince’s hall.

    Quotations 1919

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