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Proud   /praʊd/   Listen
adjective
Proud  adj.  (compar. prouder; superl. proudest)  
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." "O death, made proud with pure and princely beauty!" "And shades impervious to the proud world's glare."
(b)
Having a feeling of high self-respect or self-esteem; exulting (in); elated; often with of; as, proud of one's country. "Proud to be checked and soothed." "Are we proud men proud of being proud?"
2.
Giving reason or occasion for pride or self-gratulation; worthy of admiration; grand; splendid; magnificent; admirable; ostentatious. "Of shadow proud." "Proud titles." " The proud temple's height." "Till tower, and dome, and bridge-way proud Are mantled with a golden cloud."
3.
Excited by sexual desire; applied particularly to the females of some animals. 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.





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"Proud" Quotes from Famous Books



... the street to the other by a blow of his whip amid the cheers of the crowd who now felt themselves avenged. A butcher's boy knocked Colomban with his paste-pot, his brush, and his posters, from the top of his ladder into the gutter, and the proud Penguins then felt the greatness of their country. Colomban stood up, covered with filth, lame, and with his elbow ...
— Penguin Island • Anatole France
... he stood, the moon shone full on his wasted form; on his face, resolute, cheerful, and proud, despite its hollowed outlines and sicklied hues. He raised his head, spoke in the language unknown to me, and the armed men and the litter bearers grouped round him, bending low, their eyes fixed on the ground. The Veiled ...
— The Lock and Key Library • Julian Hawthorne, Ed.
... with that struggling thing in the water, seemed an eternity of agony to me. Then another loud bang caused the proud head with its weight of antlers to sink to the wet bank never to ...
— A Woman Tenderfoot • Grace Gallatin Seton-Thompson
... himself was going to Texas. He was the father of his people. He would right every wrong. He loved the Texans, these children of the north who had come to his country for a home. No one could ever say that he appealed in vain to Santa Anna for protection. Texans would be proud that they were a part of Mexico, they would be glad to belong to a nation which already had a glorious history, and to come to a capital which had more splendor and romance than ...
— The Texan Star - The Story of a Great Fight for Liberty • Joseph A. Altsheler
... desire is sometimes sent to cure it; I know you read these practical divines)—but allowing your objection, does not the betraying of his father's secret directly spring from pride?—from the pride of wine, and a full heart, and a proud over-stepping of the ordinary rules of morality, and contempt of the prejudices of mankind, which are not to bind superior souls—'as trust in the matter of secrets all ties of blood, etc., etc., keeping of promises, the feeble mind's ...
— The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb IV - Poems and Plays • Charles and Mary Lamb


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