"en un principio" meaning in All languages combined

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Adverb [Spanish]

Head templates: {{head|es|adverb}} en un principio
  1. (idiomatic) at the start; at the very beginning Tags: idiomatic Synonyms: de buen comienzo
    Sense id: en-en_un_principio-es-adv-yppsftVR Categories (other): Spanish entries with incorrect language header

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          "english": "Receiving her within those walls would have been a serious insult to the memory of the deceased, a kind of posthumous provocation, and that man of positive ideas was back then in the beginning of a moral derangement, and bursts of superstitious and childish fear.",
          "ref": "1891, Benito Pérez Galdós, Ángel Guerra",
          "text": "Recibirla entre aquellas paredes habría sido una grave injuria a la memoria de la finada, una especie de provocación póstuma, y aquel hombre de ideas positivas se encontraba a la sazón en un principio de desquiciamiento moral, y le pasaban por la mente ráfagas de supersticioso y pueril miedo.",
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