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Pride   /praɪd/   Listen
Pride

noun
1.
A feeling of self-respect and personal worth.  Synonym: pridefulness.
2.
Satisfaction with your (or another's) achievements.
3.
The trait of being spurred on by a dislike of falling below your standards.
4.
A group of lions.
5.
Unreasonable and inordinate self-esteem (personified as one of the deadly sins).  Synonym: superbia.
verb
(past & past part. prided; pres. part. priding)
1.
Be proud of.  Synonyms: congratulate, plume.



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"Pride" Quotes from Famous Books



... small in proportion to the size of the flag, owing to the limitations of the original sailor collar. Yet when it was in place, with the stripes composed of Dorothy's hair-ribbons drawn up artistically, so that the wrinkles didn't show, the effect was most impressive. And along with their pride in their success, the girls experienced that indescribable thrill which is the heart's response to the challenge of our ...
— Peggy Raymond's Vacation - or Friendly Terrace Transplanted • Harriet L. (Harriet Lummis) Smith
... said Agostino; "it cannot be that Florence will suffer her pride and glory to be trodden down. Let us hasten on, for the shades of evening are coming fast, and there is a keen wind sweeping down from your ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 9, No. 52, February, 1862 • Various
... gently in the ground! And may his tomb be by this verse renown'd: "Here Shock, the pride of all his kind, is laid, Who fawn'd like man, but ...
— The Humourous Poetry of the English Language • James Parton
... him on his way. He looked little like a pledged and triumphant lover; but in his contracted brow and compressed lip might be read the determination of his soul. There was no longer a contest between poverty and pride, between the maintenance or destruction of his ancient house, between his old engagement and his present passion; that was past. Henrietta Temple was the light in the pharos amid all his stormy fortunes; thither he directed all the energies ...
— Henrietta Temple - A Love Story • Benjamin Disraeli
... promises to this nun prayers for the redemption of her soul from purgatory, and then does not doubt that she shall find what she has lost. She piques herself upon being extremely pious; but does not consider lying and deceit are the works of the Devil and not of God. Ambition, pride and selfishness have entirely spoilt her. I fear she will not make a good end. That I may live in peace I seem to shut my eyes to these things. My son often, in allusion to her pride, calls her Madame Lucifer. She is not backward in believing ...
— Marguerite de Navarre - Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois Queen of Navarre • Marguerite de Navarre


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