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PRIDE, n.

1. Inordinate self-esteem; an unreasonable conceit of one's own superiority in talents, beauty, wealth, accomplishments, rank or elevation in office, which manifests itself in lofty airs, distance, reserve, and often in contempt of others.

Martial pride looks down on industry.

Pride goeth before destruction. Prov.16.

Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt.

All pride is abject and mean.

Those that walk in pride he is able to abase. Dan.4.

2. Insolence; rude treatment of others; insolent exultation.

That hardly we escap'd the pride of France.

3. Generous elation of heart; a noble self-esteem springing from a consciousness of worth.

The honest pride of conscious virtue.

4. Elevation; loftiness.

A falcon tow'ring in her pride of place.

5. Decoration; ornament; beauty displayed.

Whose lofty trees, clad with summer's pride.

Be his this sword

Whose ivory sheath, inwrought with curious pride,

Adds graceful terror to the wearer's side.

6. Splendid show; ostentation.

Is this array, the war of either side

Through Athens pass'd with military pride.

7. That of which men are proud; that which excites boasting.

I will cut off the pride of the Philistines. Zech.9. Zeph.3.

8. Excitement of the sexual appetite in a female beast.

9. Proud persons. Ps.36.

PRIDE, v.t. With the reciprocal pronoun, to pride one's self, to indulge pride; to take pride; to value one's self; to gratify self-esteem. They pride themselves in their wealth, dress or equipage. He prides himself in his achievements.

1913 Definition
Pride (pride)
n.(?)
Pride
[Cf. AS. lamprede, LL. lampreda, E. lamprey.] (Zoöl.)
  1. A small European lamprey (Petromyzon branchialis); -- called also prid, and sandpiper.
  2. 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. Dan. iv. 37.

    Pride that dines on vanity sups on contempt. Franklin.

  3. 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. Goldsmith.

    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. Macaulay.

  4. 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. Ps. xxxvi. 11.

    That hardly we escaped the pride of France. Shak.

  5. 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. Spenser.

    I will cut off the pride of the Philistines. Zech. ix. 6.

    A bold peasantry, their country's pride. Goldsmith.

  6. Show; ostentation; glory.

    Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war. Shak.

  7. 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. Shak.

  8. 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 (Zoöl.), the camel.

    Syn. -- 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.

  9. To indulge in pride, or self-esteem] to rate highly; to plume; -- used reflexively.
    Bp. Hall.

    Pluming and priding himself in all his services. South.

  10. To be proud; to glory.
    [R.]
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