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Definition of Principle

Principle Beginning; commencement. A source, or origin; that from which anything proceeds; fundamental substance or energy; primordial substance; ultimate element, or cause. An original faculty or endowment. A fundamental truth; a comprehensive law or doctrine, from which others are derived, or on which others are founded; a general truth; an elementary proposition; a maxim; an axiom; a postulate. 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. Any original inherent constituent which characterizes a substance, or gives it its essential properties, and which can usually be separated by analysis; -- applied especially to drugs, plant extracts, etc. To equip with principles; to establish, or fix, in certain principles; to impress with any tenet, or rule of conduct, good or ill. Related Definitions: Action, An, Analysis, And, Any, Anything, Applied, Are, As, Axiom, Be, Beginning, Behavior, Belief, By, Can, Cause, Certain, Commencement, Comprehensive, Conduct, Consistently, Constituent, Derived, Directing, Doctrine, Element, Elementary, Endowment, Energy, Equip, Especially, Essential, Establish, Faculty, Fix, Founded, From, Fundamental, General, Gives, Good, Governing, Ill, Impress, In, Influence, Inherent, It, Law, Life, Maxim, No, Of, On, One, Opinion, Or, Origin, Original, Person, Plant, Postulate, Primordial, Principle, Proceeds, Properties, Proposition, Right, Rule, Separated, Settled, Source, Substance, Tenet, That, The, To, Truth, Ultimate, Which, With

Principle Quotations Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost. John Quincy Adams In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock. Thomas Jefferson At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love. Martin Luther King, Jr. I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale. Thomas Jefferson We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end. Benjamin Disraeli

Principle Translations principle in Afrikaans is beginsel principle in Dutch is principe, beginsel, grondbeginsel principle in French is principe, maxime principle in German is Ursache, Grundsatz, Prinzip principle in Hungarian is alapelv, elv principle in Italian is principio principle in Latin is formula principle in Spanish is maxima, principio principle in Swedish is princip

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