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  • adjective superlative form of princely: most princely.

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Examples

  • And yet, in this princeliest of cities so to be selected by the noblest citizens as worthy of highest privilege, argues, methinks conclusively, an excellence forerunning exercise of rule. 4

    Agesilaus 2007

  • Most distressfully (but, my dear, how successfully!) to wail he did, his locks of a lucan tinge, quickrich, ripely rippling, unfilleted, those lashbetasselled lids on the verge of closing time, whiles ouze of his sidewiseopen mouth the breath of him, evenso languishing as the princeliest treble treacle or lichee chewchow purse could buy.

    Finnegans Wake 2006

  • If Kemble was the ideal Coriolanus and Henry V., he was too kingly as Hamlet, and Booth is the _princeliest_ Hamlet that ever trod the stage.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 103, May, 1866 Various

  • Harkness, true to his boast, had found quite the straightest, princeliest balsam in the nearby woods.

    Red-Robin Jane Abbott

  • Something in his manner turned this into the princeliest of compliments.

    Try Anything Twice 1938

  • Did not that position make him a sort of master, at any rate far superior to the princeliest puppet?

    The Cost 1904

  • What are the princeliest of them beside the fiery halls of Tir-na-noge and the flame-built cities of the Gods?

    AE in the Irish Theosophist George William Russell 1901

  • In the times which are not ancient history, which some of us still remember, which were our high days of youth, as far down as in the fifties of this present century, there lived in one of the most imposing houses, in one of the princeliest squares of Edinburgh, a lady, who was an old lady, yet still as may be said in the prime of life.

    Kirsteen: The Story of a Scotch Family Seventy Years Ago Margaret 1891

  • Did not that position make him a sort of master, at any rate far superior to the princeliest puppet?

    The Cost David Graham Phillips 1889

  • "The kingdom's princeliest youth besiege her ear."

    Poems of Paul Hamilton Hayne, 1882

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