Meaning of princelily | Babel Free

Definitions

In a princely manner.

Examples

“[…]; where, after His Majeſty had very Princelily vouchſafed to declare in general His Intent, concerning ſuch Impoſitions as the Commons, by their Grievances lately exhibited unto Him, had complained on;[…]Laſtly, His Highneſs moſt Princelily remembered, that, at their laſt Attending on Him at Whitehall, by His own Mouth, He then promiſed to give them ſhortly after further Anſwer, before the Breaking up of this Seſſion, to ſuch other of their Grievances as formerly they of the Lower Houſe had preſented unto Him, and which at that Time He did forbear to anſwer;”

“Princelily, Principaliter, regiè.”

“In the nineteenth century—the age of civilization and refinement—one man was rewarded princelily by public subscription for having made a railway fortune; while another, the author of the railway system, pined in poverty and gloom, and no man thought of him: and yet of those two men, George Hudson and Thomas Gray—whose name will be most honoured by posterity? The first is in disgrace, the last is in his grave.”

“Beyond these gardens (called “de la Isla”), so princelily laid out, is a vast expanse of forest, thickly planted with trees of various foliage: labyrinthine avenues and tortuous alleys ending in, here and there, a clairière, where rustic tables and seats, and vine-spread canopies, indicate the scenes of royal pic-nics au frais.”

“The great man appeared at last, a fine man and princelily dressed, and I was getting on hopefully with Luke xxiii. and xxiv., commenting upon it, till, alas!”

“Salmon and cucumber suggests profiteerin’; and if there’s meat only with the and with greatest diff. do guests restrain themselves from fallin’ on the necks of the princelily generous hosts.”

“And I do not think that any single moment will ever bring me, as it had never brought me, as keen a thrill as that which I read on a green telegraph form, a few hours before the sailing of the ship, above the signature Peters, the news that one of the big American magazines had bought, and princelily, the serial rights of my last novel.”

“Laugh with a charming dissemblance of laughter; give all, but give princelily; and let the great laws of control exhibit themselves immingled with what they control.”

“I admired the residential terraces of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century which on the east side of The Mall testify almost princelily to the past of Armagh, but I liked too the less well preserved west side, into which Victorianism had thrust some ruddy expressions of piety and public service.”

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