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Pride

noun

A feeling of self-respect and personal worth. Synonym: pridefulness.

Satisfaction with your (or another's) achievements.

The trait of being spurred on by a dislike of falling below your standards.

A group of lions.

Unreasonable and inordinate self-esteem (personified as one of the deadly sins). Synonym: superbia.

verb

(past & past part. prided; pres. part. priding)

Be proud of. Synonyms: congratulate, plume.

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"Pride" Quotes from Famous Books

... Dombey and Son—fell the entire responsibility of bringing up his two children, Florence, then eight years of age, and the tiny boy, Paul. Of Florence he took little notice; girls never seemed to him to be of any special use in the world, but Paul was the light of his eyes, his pride and joy, and in the delicate child with his refined features and dreamy eyes, Mr. Dombey saw the future representative of the firm, and his heir as well; and he could not do enough for the boy who was to perpetuate the name of Dombey after him. It seemed ...

— Ten Boys from Dickens • Kate Dickinson Sweetser

... ways of the air, as some haughty queen of distant conquered lands might in her poverty and exile dance, in some encampment of the gipsies, for the mere bread to live by, but beyond that would never abate her pride to dance ...

— A Dreamer's Tales • Lord Dunsany [Edward J. M. D. Plunkett]

... here the rose Her full chalice shall disclose; Here's narcissus wet with dew, Windflower and the violet blue. Wear the garland I have made; Crowned with it, put pride away; For the wreath that blooms must fade; Thou thyself must ...

— Orpheus in Mayfair and Other Stories and Sketches • Maurice Baring

... were keenly curious concerning Max, and considered themselves aggrieved that, after their frankness, he should choose to be reserved. They put this down to pride. But the Legion would take it out of him! All men were equal there. They had ...

— A Soldier of the Legion • C. N. Williamson

... are feasting. In the daytime all use white garments within the city, but at night or outside the city they use red garments either of wool or silk. They hate black as they do dung, and therefore they dislike the Japanese, who are fond of black. Pride they consider the most execrable vice, and one who acts proudly is chastised with the most ruthless correction. Wherefore no one thinks it lowering to wait at table or to work in the kitchen or fields. All work they call discipline, ...

— The City of the Sun • Tommaso Campanells

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