Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality or rank of a prince.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Princeliness.
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- noun obsolete
princeliness
Etymologies
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Examples
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The second was that if you were going to get embarrassingly wasted, you might as well do it in style, on vintage champagne, with a prince, however tenuous his grip on a proper princehood might be.
The Little Lady Agency and the Prince Hester Browne 2008
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The second was that if you were going to get embarrassingly wasted, you might as well do it in style, on vintage champagne, with a prince, however tenuous his grip on a proper princehood might be.
The Little Lady Agency and the Prince Hester Browne 2008
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The second was that if you were going to get embarrassingly wasted, you might as well do it in style, on vintage champagne, with a prince, however tenuous his grip on a proper princehood might be.
The Little Lady Agency and the Prince Hester Browne 2008
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He lifted the badge of princehood from his forehead, shortened the fillet from which it hung, so that it would fit her small head and set it on her brow.
The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt Elizabeth Miller
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But for the badge of princehood, the fringed ribbon dependent from a gem-crusted annulet over each temple, his habiliments were the same as the Pharaoh's.
The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt Elizabeth Miller
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Behind, a second chariot was driven by a single occupant, who wore the badges of princehood also.
The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt Elizabeth Miller
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His jokes upon Falstaff are so little good-natured that he stands upon his princehood whenever the old man would retort upon him.
William Shakespeare John Masefield 1922
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Like a brief splendid dream his princehood lay behind him, and only the beautiful casket set with diamonds and pearls reminded him that it had really happened.
Hauff's Fairy Tales, Translated and Adapted Cicely Hauff McDonnell 1903
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Brave, lovable David, with his chosen friend Jonathan, the type of princehood; the gloomy but majestic figure of Saul, trustful Abraham, and fearless Daniel.
A Houseful of Girls George de Horne Vaizey 1887
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The lions 'infant mortality rate, due to predators, parasites, disease, starvation, and other lions, is two-thirds within the first year, so chances are that you won't live past your princehood.
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