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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Proud \Proud\, a. [Compar. {Prouder}; superl. {Proudest}.] [OE. proud, prout, prud, prut, AS. pr[umac]t; akin to Icel. pr[umac][edh]r stately, handsome, Dan. prud handsome. Cf. {Pride}.] 1. Feeling or manifesting pride, in a good or bad sense; as: (a) Possessing or showing too great self-esteem; overrating one's excellences; hence, arrogant; haughty; lordly; presumptuous. Nor much expect A foe so proud will first the weaker seek. --Milton. O death, made proud with pure and princely beauty ! --Shak. And shades impervious to the proud world's glare. --Keble. (b) Having a feeling of high self-respect or self-esteem; exulting (in); elated; -- often with of; as, proud of one's country. [bd]Proud to be checked and soothed.[b8] --Keble. Are we proud men proud of being proud ? --Thackeray. 2. Giving reason or occasion for pride or self-gratulation; worthy of admiration; grand; splendid; magnificent; admirable; ostentatious. [bd]Of shadow proud.[b8] --Chapman. [bd]Proud titles.[b8] --Shak. [bd] The proud temple's height.[b8] --Dryden. Till tower, and dome, and bridge-way proud Are mantled with a golden cloud. --Keble. 3. Excited by sexual desire; -- applied particularly to the females of some animals. --Sir T. Browne. Note: Proud is often used with participles in the formation of compounds which, for the most part, are self-explaining; as, proud-crested, proud-minded, proud-swelling. {Proud flesh} (Med.), a fungous growth or excrescence of granulations resembling flesh, in a wound or ulcer. | |
