Definition of Pride

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Definition of Pride

Pride

A small European lamprey (Petromyzon branchialis); -- called also prid, and sandpiper.

The quality or state of being proud; inordinate self-esteem; an unreasonable conceit of one's own superiority in talents, beauty, wealth, rank, etc., which manifests itself in lofty airs, distance, reserve, and often in contempt of others.

A sense of one's own worth, and abhorrence of what is beneath or unworthy of one; lofty self-respect; noble self-esteem; elevation of character; dignified bearing; proud delight; -- in a good sense.

Proud or disdainful behavior or treatment; insolence or arrogance of demeanor; haughty bearing and conduct; insolent exultation; disdain.

That of which one is proud; that which excites boasting or self-gratulation; the occasion or ground of self-esteem, or of arrogant and presumptuous confidence, as beauty, ornament, noble character, children, etc.

Show; ostentation; glory.

Highest pitch; elevation reached; loftiness; prime; glory; as, to be in the pride of one's life.

Consciousness of power; fullness of animal spirits; mettle; wantonness; hence, lust; sexual desire; esp., an excitement of sexual appetite in a female beast.

To indulge in pride, or self-esteem; to rate highly; to plume; -- used reflexively.

To be proud; to glory.

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Pride Quotations

Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation - not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our economy. Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago.
Barack Obama

A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.
C. S. Lewis

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
Kahlil Gibran

Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
Mohandas Gandhi

He didn't come out of my belly, but my God, I've made his bones, because I've attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I'm so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride.
John Lennon

Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.
Friedrich Nietzsche

All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words "Ich bin ein Berliner!"
John F. Kennedy

There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.
George Washington

My pride fell with my fortunes.
William Shakespeare

Pride Translations

pride in Danish is stolt
pride in Dutch is trots
pride in French is orgueil
pride in German is Stolz, Hochmut
pride in Italian is fierezza
pride in Latin is superbia, fastosus
pride in Portuguese is orgulho
pride in Spanish is altanero, orgullo

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