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Pride   /praɪd/   Listen
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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... 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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