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noun

Pride n. (Zool.) A small European lamprey (Petromyzon branchialis); called also prid, and sandpiper.

Pride n.

1.

The quality or state of being proud; inordinate self-esteem; an unreasonable conceit of one's own superiority in talents, beauty, wealth, rank, etc., which manifests itself in lofty airs, distance, reserve, and often in contempt of others. "Those that walk in pride he is able to abase." "Pride that dines on vanity sups on contempt."

2.

A sense of one's own worth, and abhorrence of what is beneath or unworthy of one; lofty self-respect; noble self-esteem; elevation of character; dignified bearing; proud delight; in a good sense. "Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride." "A people which takes no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote descendants."

3.

Proud or disdainful behavior or treatment; insolence or arrogance of demeanor; haughty bearing and conduct; insolent exultation; disdain. "Let not the foot of pride come against me." "That hardly we escaped the pride of France."

4.

That of which one is proud; that which excites boasting or self-gratulation; the occasion or ground of self-esteem, or of arrogant and presumptuous confidence, as beauty, ornament, noble character, children, etc. "Lofty trees yclad with summer's pride." "I will cut off the pride of the Philistines." "A bold peasantry, their country's pride."

5.

Show; ostentation; glory. "Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war."

6.

Highest pitch; elevation reached; loftiness; prime; glory; as, to be in the pride of one's life. "A falcon, towering in her pride of place."

7.

Consciousness of power; fullness of animal spirits; mettle; wantonness; hence, lust; sexual desire; esp., an excitement of sexual appetite in a female beast. (Obs.)

Pride of India, or Pride of China. (Bot.) See Margosa.

Pride of the desert (Zool.), the camel.

Synonyms: Self-exaltation; conceit; hauteur; haughtiness; lordliness; loftiness. Pride, Vanity. Pride is a high or an excessive esteem of one's self for some real or imagined superiority, as rank, wealth, talents, character, etc. Vanity is the love of being admired, praised, exalted, etc., by others. Vanity is an ostentation of pride; but one may have great pride without displaying it. Vanity, which is etymologically "emptiness," is applied especially to the exhibition of pride in superficialities, as beauty, dress, wealth, etc.

verb

Pride v. t. (past & past part. prided; pres. part. priding) To indulge in pride, or self-esteem; to rate highly; to plume; used reflexively. "Pluming and priding himself in all his services."

Pride v. i. To be proud; to glory. (R.)

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Etymology of 'Pride'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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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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