"princelily" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1610?, Journals of the House of Lords, Beginning Anno Vicesimo Elizabethæ Reginæ, volume II, pages 639 and 658:",
          "text": "[…]; 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;",
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          "text": "Princelily, Principaliter, regiè.",
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          "ref": "1860 October, George Frederick Pardon, “The Secret of Success”, in The Quarterly Magazine of the Independent Order of Odd-Fellows, Manchester Unity, volume II, number XVI, Manchester: the G.M. and Board of Directors, page 460:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "1866, Mrs. W[illia]m Pitt Byrne [i.e., Julia Clara Byrne], “Aranjuez”, in Cosas de España: Illustrative of Spain and the Spaniards as They Are, volume II, London, New York: Alexander Strahan, pages 243–244:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "1891 March 26, Herbert [Alfred] Birks, quoting Thomas Valpy French, “The Lonely Pioneer”, in The Life and Correspondence of Thomas Valpy French, First Bishop of Lahore, volume II, London: John Murray, published 1895, section “Notes from Diary”, page 379:",
          "text": "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!",
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          "ref": "1918, The Tatler, page 142:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "1930, Alec Waugh, The Coloured Countries, page 25:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "1943, Charles Williams, The Figure of Beatrice: A Study in Dante, Faber and Faber Limited, page 66:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "1962, Kate O’Brien, My Ireland, Hastings House, page 79:",
          "text": "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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          "text": "Princelily, Principaliter, regiè.",
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          "text": "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.",
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          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "1930, Alec Waugh, The Coloured Countries, page 25:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "1943, Charles Williams, The Figure of Beatrice: A Study in Dante, Faber and Faber Limited, page 66:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "text": "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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