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Definition:1. a rule or custom intended to regulate behavior or thought2. a procedural rule that guides moral conduct
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In my judgement Eubulus, you shall as soon catch a hare with a tabor, as you shall persuade youth with your aged and over-worn eloquence, to such severity of life, which as yet there was never stoic in precepts so strict, neither any in life so precise, but would rather allow it in words, than follow it in works, rather talk of it than try it.
John Lyly. Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit (1578)
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Darya Alexandrovna's words about forgiveness had aroused in him nothing but annoyance. The applicability or non-applicability of the Christian precept to his own case was too difficult a question to be discussed lightly, and this question had long ago been answered by Alexey Alexandrovitch in the negative.
Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina (Translated by Constance Garnett)
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We wish to make it a voice of remonstrance against placing any of those morally defective books called Bibles in the hands of the ignorant and impressible heathen, or the children of Christian countries, until their minds become sufficiently fortified by age and experience to resist or withstand the demoralizing influence of their bad precepts and bad examples as exposed in this work.
Kersey and Lydia Graves. The Bible of Bibles (1879)
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he was never taught to read or write; never rebuked for any bad habit which did not annoy his keeper; never led a single step towards virtue, or guarded by a single precept against vice.
Emily Brontë. Wuthering Heights (1847)
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her plaid cloak, which the frosty wind fluttered, gathered close about her, and encouraging us, by precept and example, to keep up our spirits, and march forward, as she said, “like stalwart soldiers.”
Charlotte Brontë. Jane Eyre (1847)
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"I trust that the precepts of international law will be observed, gentlemen. [...]"
Tom Clancy. The Hunt for Red October, p.184 (1984)
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