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2. 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. Let not the foot of pride come against me.Ps. xxxvi. 11. That hardly we escaped the pride of France.Shak. 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. Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war.Shak. A falcon, towering in her pride of place.Shak. 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. Pride Pluming and priding himself in all his services.South. Pride Prideful Prideless |
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