Unprincessly
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Not princessly.
"She not only will never permit any one to touch her hair, which she always dresses and arranges herself, according to her own particular notions of grace and beauty, a thing which, I venture to think, and may perhaps suggest, is very unladylike, not to say unprincessly, savouring of plebeian independence, and low, artist-like individuality of taste, wholly unbecoming her distinguished rank and station;—[…]"
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More examples"She not only will never permit any one to touch her hair, which she always dresses and arranges herself, according to her own particular notions of grace and beauty, a thing which, I venture to think, and may perhaps suggest, is very unladylike, not to say unprincessly, savouring of plebeian independence, and low, artist-like individuality of taste, wholly unbecoming her distinguished rank and station;—[…]"
Etymology
From un- + princessly.
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