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Pride   /praɪd/   Listen
Pride

noun
1.
A feeling of self-respect and personal worth.  Synonym: pridefulness.
2.
Satisfaction with your (or another's) achievements.
3.
The trait of being spurred on by a dislike of falling below your standards.
4.
A group of lions.
5.
Unreasonable and inordinate self-esteem (personified as one of the deadly sins).  Synonym: superbia.
verb
(past & past part. prided; pres. part. priding)
1.
Be proud of.  Synonyms: congratulate, plume.



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"Pride" Quotes from Famous Books



... he had said in his heart, as all clear-sighted Americans had been saying, "has commercialism eaten into our very vitals? Has the good red blood of the early pioneers turned to water? Are we without the nerve any longer to read the writing on the wall?" And the only times that his national pride had been able to raise its head beneath the weight of shame and foreboding were those when he passed the windows of Red Cross Depots and caught sight of a roomful of good and noble women feverishly at work on bandages; when he ...
— Who Cares? • Cosmo Hamilton
... Marguerite Blakeney and these Comtesse de Tournay had remained seemingly unmoved. The latter, rigid, erect and defiant, with one hand still upon her daughter's arm, seemed the very personification of unbending pride. For the moment Marguerite's sweet face had become as white as the soft fichu which swathed her throat, and a very keen observer might have noted that the hand which held the tall, beribboned stick was clenched, and ...
— The Scarlet Pimpernel • Baroness Orczy
... empty technic which one finds in the higher varieties of men. Even in the pursuits which, by the custom of Christendom, are especially their own, women seldom show any of that elaborately conventionalized and half automatic proficiency which is the pride and boast of most men. It is a commonplace of observation, indeed, that a housewife who actually knows how to cook, or who can make her own clothes with enough skill to conceal the fact from the most casual glance, ...
— In Defense of Women • H. L. Mencken
... pride in her friend, saw that not only was the room crowded with listeners, but that others were standing outside in the porch. One profile, outlined for a few moments against a window, attracted her attention by contrast with those about it; an elderly face, worn by evident illness or suffering, ...
— Kildares of Storm • Eleanor Mercein Kelly
... to no man have I spoken. I have also avoided intercourse with my fellows, selfishly preferring to nurse my sorrow in sinful rebellion against God's will. Now am I justly punished by being stricken down in the pride of my strength. At the same time God has shown his everlasting mercy by sending you to me in the time of my sore need. And you have promised to stay with me until the end, which I feel ...
— Under the Great Bear • Kirk Munroe


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