pride

Roget category 878

6. Words relating to the sentient and moral
› 6.2. Personal affections
›› 6.2.5. Extrinsic affections

#878. Pride

noun

dignity, self-respect, mens sibi conscia recti [Lat.] [Vergil]. pride — haughtiness etc. adj. — high notions, hauteur — vainglory, crest — arrogance etc. (assumption) 885.
proud man, highflier^† — fine gentleman, fine lady.

verb

be proud etc. adj. — put a good face on — look one in the face — stalk abroad, perk oneself up — think no small beer of oneself — presume, swagger, strut — rear one's head, lift up one's head, hold up one's head — hold one's head high, look big, take the wall, bear like the Turk no rival near the throne" [Pope], carry with a high hand — ride the high horse, mount on one's high horse — set one's back up, bridle, toss the head — give oneself airs etc. (assume) 885 — boast etc. 884.
pride oneself on — glory in, take a pride in — pique oneself, plume oneself, hug oneself — stand upon, be proud of — put a good face on — not hide one's light under a bushel, not put one's talent in a napkin — not think small beer of oneself etc. (vanity) 880.

adjective

dignified — stately — proud, proud-crested — lordly, baronial — lofty-minded — highsouled, high-minded, high-mettled^†, high-handed, high-plumed, high-flown, high-toned.
haughty lofty, high, mighty, swollen, puffed up, flushed, blown — vainglorious — purse-proud, fine — proud as a peacock, proud as Lucifer — bloated with pride.
supercilious, disdainful, bumptious, magisterial, imperious, high and mighty, overweening, consequential — arrogant etc. 885 — unblushing etc. 880.
stiff, stiff-necked — starch — perked stuck-up — in buckram, strait-laced — prim etc. (affected) 855.
on one's dignity, on one's high horses, on one's tight ropes, on one's high ropes — on stilts — en grand seigneur [Fr.].

adverb

with head erect.

phrase

odi profanum vulgus et arceo [Lat.] [Horace]. a duke's revenues on her back" [Henry VI]; disdains the shadow which he treads on at disdains the shadow which he treads on at noon" [Coriolanis]; pride in their port, defiance in their eye" [Goldsmith].

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