vital principle
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The federal civil rights remedy was never a complete solution, but it stood for a vital principle about women’s equal rights.
From Washington Post • Feb. 16, 2018
The document will be lauded for establishing one vital principle.
From BBC • Dec. 31, 2014
The sanctity of bond agreements is a vital principle.
From Slate • Aug. 1, 2014
It may achieve its specific ends, but in taking down its enemy, it will leave a vital principle floundering in its wake.
From The Guardian • Mar. 18, 2013
Vī′talism, the doctrine that there is a vital principle distinct from the organisation of living bodies, which directs all their actions and functions; Vī′talist, one who holds this doctrine.—adj.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
