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Pride
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(n.) Proud or disdainful behavior or treatment; insolence or arrogance of demeanor; haughty bearing and conduct; insolent exultation; disdain.
(2):
(n.) A small European lamprey (Petromyzon branchialis); - called also prid, and sandpiper.
(3):
(n.) 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.
(4):
(n.) 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.
(5):
(n.) 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.
(6):
(n.) Show; ostentation; glory.
(7):
(n.) Highest pitch; elevation reached; loftiness; prime; glory; as, to be in the pride of one's life.
(8):
(n.) Consciousness of power; fullness of animal spirits; mettle; wantonness; hence, lust; sexual desire; esp., an excitement of sexual appetite in a female beast.
(9):
(v. i.) To be proud; to glory.
(10):
(v. t.) To indulge in pride, or self-esteem; to rate highly; to plume; - used reflexively.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Pride'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/p/pride.html. 1828.
