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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'

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"Pride" Quotes from Famous Books

... for her offence. But in vain. Her humiliation, intreaties, and dread of want, excited sensations of triumph and obduracy, but not of compassion, in the bosom of the man of God. The rector was implacable: his pride was wounded, his prejudices insulted, and his anger rouzed. He had, beside, his own money in his own pocket, and there he was willing it should remain. Now we all know that pride, prejudice, anger, and avarice, ...

— The Adventures of Hugh Trevor • Thomas Holcroft

... Oh, she was one such good mother, but baby came in her place. Baby looks like mother, and now I have to be her little mother, you see," and she set the little dumpling out upon her knee, with such pride and tenderness. ...

— Our Young Folks at Home and Abroad • Various

... to Mr Scott, "they have, in a great measure, detached words from ideas and feelings; they can, therefore, afford to be unusually profuse of the better sort of the first; and they experience as much internal satisfaction and pride when they profess a virtue, as if they had practised one." Perhaps it would be more correct to say, that they have detached ideas and feelings from their corresponding actions. Their feelings have always been too violent for the moment, and ...

— Travels in France during the years 1814-1815 • Archibald Alison

... cool, babbling stream. The mental strain of the morning's action was as nothing compared to the physical pain of the afternoon. The Colonel, seeing his plight, offered to lend him his horse, but he thanked him and declined, as there is a sort of grim pride in "sticking it." The men, too, took an unreasonable objection to seeing their Officers avail themselves of these lifts. Then the heavens were kind, and it rained; they turned faces to the clouds and let the drops ...

— "Contemptible" • "Casualty"

... novel was Dombey and Son, in which he attacks British pomp and pride of state in the haughty merchant. It is full of character and of pathos. Every one knows, as if they had appeared among us, the proud and rigid Dombey, J. B. the sly, the unhappy Floy, the exquisite Toots, the inimitable Nipper, Sol Gills ...

— English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History - Designed as a Manual of Instruction • Henry Coppee

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