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▪ I. proud, a. (n., adv.)|praʊd|
Forms: see below.
[Late OE. prút, prúd = ON. prúð-r brave, gallant, magnificent, stately (whence Icel. pruður, MSw. prudh, MDa. prud); both prob. a. OF. prūd, prōd, nom. prūz, prōz (= *prūt-s, *prōt-s) valiant, doughty, gallant (11th c. in Godef.), in mod.F. preux = Prov. proz, pro, Cat. prou, It. prode valiant, Rhæto-Rom. prus pious:—late L. *prōd-is profitable, advantageous, useful (prōde neut. in Itala a 200); app. either the source of, or taken from, the first element of L. prōd-esse to be of value, be good. See also preux, prow a., and cf. pride.]
A. Illustration of Forms.
(α) 1–5 prút, 5 prute, 3–5 prout, -e, 5–6 prowte. compar. 4 prottore, -our, 5 prutter, -yr.
a1050Liber Scintill. xlvi. (1889) 152 Pryte heaᵹe utawyrpð & wiþerwyrdnyss prute [sublimes] ᵹenyþerude. a1225Ancr. R. 276 Eaðe meiht tu beon prut! c1290S. Eng. Leg. I. 225/197 Oure maister was so prout, Lucefer, for his fairhede, þat he ful sone out. 1297R. Glouc. (Rolls) 9539 King stefne was þe boldore & þe prottore [v.r. prottour] uor þis cas. c1440Eng. Conq. Irel. 57 Ne for no good chaunce, he was not the Pruttyr [v.r. prutter]. Ibid. 145 Spare the meke, and wreke Ham on the Prowte. c1440Gesta Rom. lxv. 280 (Harl. MS.) And when he was this i-hyed, he wex prout. 1553Respublica (Brandl) v. vii. 17 Zo thieke prowte howrecop.
(β) 1–4 prúd, 4–6 prude, (4–5 prode), 4–6 proude, 4–7 prowd(e, 4– proud. compar. 3 pruder, prudder, 5 prodder. superl. 3 prudest, 4 pruddest, proddest, 5 pruddist.
c1000in Napier O.E. Gloss. 226/233 Arrogantes, modiᵹ: vel prud. c1175Lamb. Hom. 57 Prud ne wreiere ne beo þu noht. a1225Ancr. R. 296 He is þinge prudest, and him is scheome loðest. c1330R. Brunne Chron. (1810) 289 Þe proude kyng Pharaon, þat chaced Israel. c1350Will. Palerne 2942 Þe proddest of hem alle. 13..E.E. Allit. P. B. 1300 Þe pruddest of þe province. Ibid. 1772 Þe prowde prynce of Perce. 13..Cursor M. 2415 (Cott.) Fra þaa prude folk had hir sen. Ibid. 27571 Oft bitides þat man es Bicummen prode for halines. a1400–50Alexander 4375 Þe playne purperyn see full of prode fischis. c1400Destr. Troy 2743 The pruddist of payone, prise men of honde. a1450Myrc 1129 Hast þou.. þe prodder þe mad, For any ofyce þat þow hast had? 1535Coverdale Job xxxv. 12 Because of the wickednesse off proude tyrauntes.
B. Signification.
Senses 6 and 7 come nearest to the OF. and ON. The unfavourable sense, so early in Eng., may be due to the aspect in which a Norman prud barun or prode chevalier presented himself to the English peasant or townsman. (Cf. the two senses of L. superbus.)
I.
1. a. Having or cherishing a high or lofty opinion of oneself; valuing oneself highly on account of one's position, rank, attainments, possessions, etc.; Usually in a bad sense: Disposed to take an attitude of superiority to and contempt for others; arrogant, haughty, overweening, supercilious.
a1050Liber Scintill. xvii. (1889) 85 Sawl prutes byð forlaeten. c1175Lamb. Hom. 5 Ne beo þu þereuore prud ne wilde. Ibid. 43 Prud heo wes swiðe and modi. c1290Beket 980 in S. Eng. Leg. I. 134 [He] is prouȝt and conteckor. 1362Langl. P. Pl. A. iii. 172 Ne to depraue þi persone with a proud herte. 1484Caxton Fables of æsop iv. xx, None ought to be prowd ageynst his lord, but ought to humble hym self toward hym. 1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 18 Some be as proude as Nabugodonosor. 1560J. Daus tr. Sleidane's Comm. 119 They are as bragge and as proude as pecockes. 1613E. Hoby Countersnarle 54 Hee was a proud insolent Delegate. 1711Swift Jrnl. to Stella 20 Nov., Lord Strafford is as proud as Hell. 1782F. Burney Cecilia ix. vi, They say he's as proud as Lucifer. 1784Cowper Task vi. 96 Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much; Wisdom is humble that he knows no more. 1820Byron Mar. Fal. ii. i. 210 The vile are only vain; the great are proud. 1841W. Spalding Italy & It. Isl. II. 16 Claims not less arrogant than those of the proudest popes in the middle ages. 1859Tennyson Geraint & Enid 347 Turn, Fortune, turn thy wheel and lower the proud.
b. Const. of (the thing, quality, action, etc. which constitutes the ground of pride). See also 2.
1422tr. Secreta Secret., Priv. Priv. 154 Haue knowynge of thy-Selfe, and be not Prute of so hey vyrchipp. c1510More Picus Wks. 17/2 If thou haste receiued it: why arte thou prowde therof, as thoughe thou haddst not receiued it. 1593Shakes. 2 Hen. VI, iv. x. 77 Iden farewell, and be proud of thy victory. 1616R. C. Times' Whistle iii. 959 Most of our women are extreamly proud Of their faire lookes. 1707Norris Treat. Humility vii. 317 If a man were to be proud of anything, it should be what the angels were proud of,..their intellectual endowments. 1809–10Coleridge Friend (1865) 140, I should be more inclined to be ashamed than proud of myself if they had. 1859Geo. Eliot A. Bede ii, An ornament of which she was much prouder than of her red cheeks.
c. Preceded by a n. in comb. = proud of...
1682, etc. [see purse-proud]. 1863W. C. Baldwin Afr. Hunting viii. 354, I could make four or five spans of..good and well-matched oxen..and I am now becoming a little ox-proud. 1904Globe 27 Oct. 4/4 No one can prevent the woman who is jewel-proud..from bedecking herself with gems on every possible and a few impossible occasions.
2. Highly sensible of, or elated by, some honour done to one; feeling oneself greatly honoured by some act, fact, or relation; taking pride or having high satisfaction in something; in early use (as still in dial.) sometimes merely = gratified, pleased, glad. Often const. of, or with inf.
c1250Gen. & Ex. 1414 Wið gold, and siluer, and wið srud, Ðis sonde made ðe mayden prud. 1377Langl. P. Pl. B. xiii. 59 Pacience was proude of þat propre seruice, And made hym muirth with his mete. c1400Destr. Troy 262 Pelleus of the proffer was proude at his hert. 1593Shakes. Rich. II, iii. iii. 191 Faire Cousin, you debase your Princely Knee, To make the base Earth prowd with kissing it. 1677Dryden Apol. Heroic Poetry Ess. (Ker) I. 182 The author of the Plain Dealer, whom I am proud to call my friend. 1781Cowper Charity 308 A divine ambition, and a zeal, The boldest patriot might be proud to feel. 1784Burns ‘There was a lad’ iv, He'll be a credit to us a', We'll a' be proud o' Robin. 1902Ld. Kitchener in Westm. Gaz. 30 July 5/1 This..will, I am sure, be well understood by the Army I have been so proud to command. 1938M. K. Rawlings Yearling viii. 69 Be proud things come so bountiful. Ibid. xv. 163 I'd be proud to eat breakfast before I go. 1949H. Hornsby Lonesome Valley xxiii. 302 I'm just as proud to see you..as if you was one of my own young 'uns! 1951H. Giles Harbin's Ridge x. 99, I was sure proud Granny was there that day.
3. Having a becoming sense of what is due to or worthy of oneself or one's position; unwilling to stoop to what is beneath one; characterized by lofty self-respect; feeling or showing a proper pride.
1738Pope Epil. Sat. ii. 205 F. You're strangely proud. P. So proud, I am no Slave: So impudent, I own myself no Knave. 1761Gray Sketch 1 Too poor for a bribe and too proud to importune. 1828Carlyle Misc., Burns (1857) I. 233 Many a poet has been poorer than Burns; but no one was ever prouder. 1833Tennyson Lady Clara Vere de Vere ii, Your pride is yet no mate for mine, Too proud to care from whence I came.
4. transf. Of actions, etc.: Proceeding from or indicating pride; arrogant, haughty, presumptuous; arising from lofty self-respect.
1390Gower Conf. II. 379 Ther was..many a proud word spoke also. 1535Coverdale Prov. vi. 17 There be sixe thinges, which the Lorde hateth... A proude loke, a dyssemblynge tonge [etc.]. 1701Stanley's Hist. Philos., Biog. 9 This Philosophy [the Stoick] has..charmed a World of People by its Proud and Ostentatious Principles. 1790Cowper Mother's Picture 110 Higher far my proud pretensions rise—The son of parents pass'd into the skies. 1853tr. F. Bremer's Homes New World II. xxvii. 311 The Indians, like the Greenlanders, look down upon the white race with proud contempt.
5. That is ground or cause of pride; of which one is or may be proud (now usually in good sense); affording high satisfaction or gratification.
a1340Hampole Psalter xix. 8 Þai ere on heghe, and has þaire delite in proude honurs and vayn. a1577Gascoigne Herbs, Weeds, etc. Wks. (1587) 304 Not one of these rebuketh avarice And yet procureth prowd pluralities. c1600Shakes. Sonn. xxv, Let those..Of publike honour and proud titles bost. 1746–7Hervey Medit. (1767) I. 57 (Tombs) Where is Honour, with her proud Trophies of Renown? 1831Lamb Elia Ser. ii. Ellistoniana, One proud day to me he took his roast mutton with us in the Temple. 1840Dickens Barn. Rudge xlviii, ‘It is a proud sight’, said the secretary. 1868Freeman Norm. Conq. II. vii. 44 The proud inheritance of their stainless loyalty.
II.
6. As a poetic or rhetorical epithet. a. Of persons, their name, etc.: Of exalted station, of high degree, of lofty dignity; lordly.
a1250Prov. ælfred 5 in O.E. Misc. 102 Eorles prute, knyhtes egleche. c1374Chaucer Anel. & Arc. 147 A noþere ladye proude and nuwe. c1425Wyntoun Cron. iv. viii. 1148 Donald-Erchsone-Heggeboud King wes xiiii. winter provd. 1599Shakes. Much Ado iii. i. 50 Nature neuer fram'd a womans heart, Of prowder stuffe then that of Beatrice. 1742Gray Spring ii, How low, how little are the Proud. 1805Scott Last Minstr. vi. i, High though his titles, proud his name, Boundless his wealth as wish can claim. 1854C. Rossetti Poems (1904) 180/1 In the grave will be no space For the purple of the proud.
b. Of things: Stately, majestic, magnificent, grand, ‘gallant’, splendid. (Referring to aspect.)
c1290S. Eng. Leg. I. 301/41 A noble churche huy founden þare, with walles faire and proute. a1300Cursor M. 3249 Ring and broche war selli prude. c1400Destr. Troy 435 With pelur and pall & mony proude rynges. 1530Palsgr. 321/2 Prowde or stately, fier. 1602Marston Antonio's Rev. iii. ii, Tis not yet prowde day: The neat gay mist[r]es of the light's not vp. 1678Wood Life 28 June (O.H.S.) II. 410 The ruins..do shew that it hath been a verie statelie and proud fabrick. 1794Mrs. Radcliffe Myst. Udolpho xv, And through the waters view on high The proud ships sail, and gay clouds move. 1840Thirlwall Greece VII. lv. 91 Ecbatana..one of the proudest cities of the ancient world.
†c. transf. Highly pleasing (to other senses), ‘grand’. Obs. rare.
c1375Sc. Leg. Saints vii. (Jacobus minor) 705 Persawand prowd sawoure þare Of sottyne [sodden] flesche.
7. Characterized by great vigour, force, or vitality, such as indicates or suggests pride: in various applications.
†a. Of warriors (or their acts): Valiant, brave; mighty; esp. in phr. proud in pres (prece), valiant in conflict (see press n.1 1 b).
c1320Sir Tristr. 57 To Marke þe king þai went Wiþ kniȝtes proude in pres. c1400Destr. Troy 2132 To purvey a pepull pruddest of werre. Ibid. 6719 Preset hym with payne, & with proude strokes. c1420Avow. Arth. xlvii, Thenne he wente to the dece, Be-fore the pruddust in prece. 1523Ld. Berners Froiss. I. ccl. 371 The ii squiers within were right hardy and prowde. 1591Coningsby Jrnl. Siege Rouen in Camden Misc. I. 58 Thus have you the most prowd sally that any capten here can tell of to their memorie. 1697Dryden Virg. Georg. iv. 27 The youthful Prince, with proud allarm, Calls out the vent'rous Colony to swarm.
b. Of animals: Spirited, high-mettled; marked by vigorous and fearless activity; moving with force and dignity. (Chiefly poet.)
c1407Lydg. Reson & Sens. 3714 Bestys that be proude: As boors, lippardys, and lyouns. 1588Shakes. Tit. A. ii. ii. 21, I haue dogges my Lord, Will rouze the proudest Panther in the Chase. 1667Milton P.L. iv. 858 The Fiend repli'd not,..But like a proud Steed reind, went hautie on, Chaumping his iron curb. 1780Cowper Table-Talk 523 Give me the line that ploughs its stately course Like a proud swan, conquering the stream by force.
c. Of the sea or a stream: Swelling, swollen, high, strong, in flood.
1535Coverdale Job xxxviii. 11 Here shalt thou laye downe thy proude and hye wawes. 1590Shakes. Mids. N. ii. i. 91 Which falling in the Land, Hath euerie petty Riuer made so proud, That they haue ouer-borne their Continents. 1611Bible Ps. cxxiv. 5 Then the proud waters had gone ouer our soule. 1828Buchan Ballads N. Scot. I. 247 The wind was loud, the stream was proud, And wi' the stream gaed Willie. 1894Field 1 Dec. 838/1 In the big rivers of upper Sweden and Norway, the grayling lives in the turmoil and ‘proud’ water.
d. Of organic structures: Overgrown, exuberant, too luxuriant; swelling or swollen, tumid. (a) Said of the sap: Swelling; rising or circulating vigorously; also, said locally of plants, or parts of them, as buds, shoots, grain. (See also winter-proud.) (b) Applied to overgrown flesh in a healing wound: see also proud flesh.
[1586A. Day Eng. Secretary ii. (1625) 78 Metaphora..as if we should say..corne by the stately length and weighty eare it carrieth, to be proud.] 1593Shakes. Rich. II, iii. iv. 59 As we..wound the Barke, the skin of our Fruit-trees, Least being ouer-proud with Sap and Blood, With too much riches it confound it selfe. 1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts (1658) 219 Used by Physitians for taking down of proud swelling wounds. 1648Markham Housew. Gard. iii. x. (1668) 79 Now sap in flowers is strong and proud. 1664Evelyn Sylva 32 About the beginning of March (when the buds begin to be proud and turgid). 1764Museum Rust. III. xxxiv. 152 Ten acres of wheat, which, after Christmas, seemed proud. 1825Brockett N.C. Gloss., Proud, luxuriant. ‘Corn's varra proud.’ 1844Stephens Bk. Farm II. 515 If the winter has been open and mild, the autumn-wheat plant will have grown luxuriantly,..so..that it may have become proud, that is, in a precocious state of forwardness for the season. 1970Country Life 1 Oct. 856/1 Your case is the same as that of the farmer who sows his winter wheat too early; by the time the cold weather arrives the crop is ‘proud’—too lush and forward.
8. a. Sensually excited; ‘swelling’, lascivious. ? Obs.
1590Spenser F.Q. i. x. 26 In ashes and sackcloth he did array His daintie corse, proud humors to abate. 1593Shakes. Lucr. 712 The flesh being proud, Desire doth fight with grace. 1641Hinde J. Bruen vii. 27 Who having made their flesh proud by pampering, do now..cast off all feare of God.
b. spec. Of certain female animals, as bitches, mares, elephants: In a state of sexual excitement; ‘in heat’. ? Obs.
1575Turberv. Venerie vii. 17 A fayre Bitch..the whiche you may make to goe proude in this wyse. 1590Cokaine Treat. Hunting B iij b, A Brach is..nine daies full proude. 1615tr. De Monfart's Surv. E. Indies 17 To take them [wild elephants]..they make vse of a female, when shee goeth proud, in her heate [etc.]. 1727Bradley Fam. Dict. I. Ee j b/2 Make Broth thereof and of this give her some twice or thrice, and she will infallibly grow proud. 1781P. Beckford Hunting (1802) 62 Watch over the bitches with a cautious eye, and separate such as are going to be proud, before it be too late.
9. orig. dial. or local. ‘Large; projecting in any direction; of a roof: high-pitched’; also ‘said of a fulcrum when it is placed too near the lever end’ (E.D.Dw); also techn.: slightly raised or projecting; and see quots.
1825Jamieson, Proud, applied to a projection in a hay⁓stack, during the act of rearing it, whence it needs dressing in a particular quarter. 1857P. Colquhoun Comp. ‘Oarsman's Guide’ 13 It has been the custom to fill oars very square, to make them row proud; but there are few men capable of enduring proud oars for any length of time..not rowing the stroke out is attributable to these proud fillings. 1886S.W. Linc. Gloss. s.v., ‘The nails [in a horseshoe] stand out too proud’; ‘The board's a bit too proud, it wants spoke-shaving off.’ a1909Mod., ‘You are too proud’: said of or to a person who, trying to raise something with a crowbar or other lever, places the point too far under the object to be lifted (= too far beyond the fulcrum). 1960R. C. Bell Board & Table Games vii. 172 The inlay pieces..were fitted into them [sc. recesses], leaving an excess standing proud. 1971P. Audemars Stolen like Magic Away vi. 92 The exposed rails of the track..stand proud and quite high above the flints. 1974Good Motoring July/Aug. 18/2 The horn push, sited right across the central spoke of the steering wheel, is well proud of the spoke and this gives rise to occasional, accidental blasts.
10. Phrases.
a. proud tailor: a local name for the goldfinch, from its showy plumage.
1770D. Barrington in Archæologia (1775) III. 33 A gold⁓finch still continues to be called a proud tailor in some parts of England. 1829Glover's Hist. Derby I. 151 Fringilla Carduelis, Goldfinch, Thistle-Finch, Proud Tailor. 1876–82Yarrell's Brit. Birds (ed. 4) II. 118 note, In some of the Midland counties it is termed ‘Proud Tailor’.
b. to do (a person) proud (colloq.): to make proud, confer an honour upon, gratify highly.
1819Metropolis I. 220 ‘You do me proud’, said the general. 1837Thackeray Ravenswing i, Madam, you do me proud. 1884Milnor (Dakota) Teller 22 Aug., The people of Milnor have done themselves proud in building a school house. 1899Daily News 1 June 6/4 The sun did himself proud... For once the tents were not actually crammed throughout the afternoon.
†c. to make it proud: to behave proudly or haughtily. Obs. (See make v.1 68 b.)
c1460Towneley Myst. xxx. 263 She can make it full prowde with iapes and with gynnes. 14..Tundale's Vis. 486 Þis hogy best..His sette to swolo covetous men Þat in erþe makyȝt hit prowd and towȝe.
†C. as n. Obs.
1. A proud person; one of high degree.
c1400Destr. Troy 13696 Pirrus with that proude presit to þe temple, Weddit þat worthi, & as wif held. 1535Stewart Cron. Scot. (Rolls) II. 24 Wes neuir proud of sic auctoritie Moir wirschip wan. a1586in Pinkerton Anc. Scot. Poems (1786) 190 He luifit that prowde in paramouris.
2. Pride. rare. (Prude (ü) was also early southern ME. spelling of pryde, pride.)
c1440Gesta Rom. i. 4 (Harl. MS.) Alle þat is in þe wordle oþer it is fals couetise of flesch, or fals couetise of yen, or prowde of lif.
D. as adv. Proudly, in a proud manner (in various senses).
13..Cursor M. 28515 Lucheri has don me scrud Me-self and bere my bodi prud. c1425Cast. Persev. 1793 in Macro Plays 130 Heyl, prinse, proude prekyd in palle! 1534More Treat. Passion Wks. 1272/2 Men maye call hym a foole that beareth hymselfe prowde, because he ietteth about in a borowed gown. 1857[see 9 above].
E. Comb.
a. parasynthetic, as proud-arsed, proud-blooded, proud-crested, proud-lidded, proud-minded, proud-necked, proud-paced, proud-pillared, proud-plumed, proud-quivered, proud-spirited, proud-stomached, proud-visaged: see also proud-hearted.
b. adverbial, as proud-arching, proud-blind (blinded by pride), proud-exulting, proud-fed, proud-glancing, † proud-pied (proudly or splendidly variegated), † proud-pight, proud-prancing.
1919A. Huxley in Coterie Sept. 61 The swan's *proud-arching opulent loveliness.
1952Auden Nones 56 When the *proud-arsed broad-shouldered break and run.
1599Broughton's Let. ix. 32 Put on your spectacles you purblind and *proud-blind Pharisee.
1759Mason Caractacus Poems (1774) 261 *Proud-crested soldier! 1944Blunden Shells by Stream 57 And look, those birds with perfect ease, Proud-crested.
1796Poetry in New Ann. Reg. 168 To leave him, *proud-exulting in his pains.
1929Blunden Near & Far 37 A *proud-fed but a puny rill.
1948C. Day Lewis Poems 1943–47 88 Palpable calm, visible reticence, *Proud-lidded water.
1596Shakes. Tam. Shr. ii. i. 132, I am as peremptorie as she *proud minded.
1934T. S. Eliot Rock ii. 75 Yet they walk in the street *proudnecked, like thoroughbreds ready for races.
1616Marlowe's Faust. Wks. (Rtldg.) 120/2 On a *proud-pac'd steed, as swift as thought.
c1600Shakes. Sonn. xcviii, When *proud pide Aprill (drest in all his trim) Hath put a spirit of youth in euery thing. 1912C. Mackenzie Carnival xlii. 373 When April pauses to survey her handiwork, assuming in the contemplation of the proud pied earth the warmth and maturity of midsummer.
c1400Laud Troy Bk. 11191 Many a *proude pight pynacle Stode a-boute that tabernacle.
1949Blunden After Bombing 9 With a sounding *proud-plumed company By a glittering sea.
1901L. F. Begbie in Academy 28 Sept. 258/1 *Proud-prancing æschylean words.
1838Dickens Nich. Nick. xiii, *Proud-stomached teachers.
1844J. R. Lowell in Graham's Mag. July 15 Though these *proud-visaged hopes, once turned to fly, Hurl backward many a deadly Parthian dart.
▪ II. † proud, v. Obs.
[OE. prútian, ME. prouden, f. prút proud a.]
1. intr. To be proud; to behave proudly.
a1000Aldhelm Gloss. 1161 in Napier O.E. Gloss. 32/1 Fastu, .i. elatione, prutunge. c1000Corp. Chr. Coll. Cambr. MS. 191, 29 Þæt hi wyllon modiᵹᵹan oððe prutian. Ibid. 168 Hwanon hi modiᵹian maᵹon oððe prutian. c1325Deo Gratias 18 in E.E.P. (1862) 129 A noþur Mon proudeþ as doþ a poo. 1382Wyclif Job xv. 20 Alle his daȝis the vnpitous man proudeth. a1618Sylvester Henry Gt. 117 There prowdeth Pow'r, here Prowesse brighter shines.
b. To be lively or wanton. (Cf. proud a. 8.)
c1330Arth. & Merl. 264 Mirie time is Auerille..Ȝong man wexeþ jolif, & þan proudeþ man & wiif.
2. trans. To make proud; to puff up with pride.
c1425St. Mary of Oignies ii. ii. in Anglia VIII. 153/12 Nor she was depressed wiþ reproues ne prouded wiþ hir preisynges. 1606Warner Alb. Eng. xvi. cii. 403 Yee whom Nature hath or Fortune prowded. 1606Sylvester Du Bartas ii. iv. ii. Trophies 1333 As Sin breeds Sin, and Husband marr's the Wife, Sister prouds Sister, Brother hardens Brother, And one Companion doth corrupt another.
Hence † ˈprouded ppl. a., made proud, over-swollen; † ˈprouder, ? one who behaves proudly.
1602Warner Alb. Eng. ix. lii. 236 The prouded Flesh from sins excesse to waine. 1565W. Allen Def. Cath. Doctr. Purgatory ii. viii. 191 Goddes Churche..hathe by the spirite of God beaten downe your proudders, the Arrians: the Macedonians: the Anabaptistes. 1577Fulke Confut. Purg. 298 [quoting prec.] Our prowders the Arians. |