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prideful, a. Chiefly Sc. and N. Amer.|ˈpraɪdfʊl|
[f. pride n.1 + -ful.]
a. Full of pride; proud, arrogant.
c1450Mirour Saluacioun 4017 Some man wille he impugne be pridefulle bolnyng. 1533Gau Richt Vay 12 Thay quhilk ar pridful of thair wisdome or science. a1572Knox Hist. Ref. Wks. 1846 I. 155 The pridefull and scornefull people that stood by, mocked him. 1740Whitehead Gymnasiad ii. 36 High disdain sat prideful on his brow. 1817Coleridge Alice Du Clos iii, As if in prideful scorn Of flight and fear he stay'd behind. c1843Carlyle Hist. Sk. Jas. I & Chas. I (1898) 340 Why should not such a man be prideful? 1900Century Mag. Dec. 293 The doctor's stately and prideful wife. 1945R. Hargreaves Enemy at Gate 64 A prideful, unbending spirit was in no mood to bow a compulsory knee without a fight for it. 1956B. Chute Greenwillow v. 64 He's prideful, and that's a sin, but he's been good to me. 1974G. M. Fraser McAuslan in Rough 159 When that veteran has not only learned his political science at Govan Cross but is also a member of an independent and prideful race. 1974R. Helms Tolkien's World iv. 73 The true heroism in this situation was..the endurance of his men, forced by his prideful act to exhibit their loyalty to the death. 1977Time 28 Feb. 23/1 He also was continuing to have his problems with prickly, prideful Senator Robert Byrd.
b. Full of pride in some fact or achievement; pleased, elated. Also, meriting a feeling of pride.
1841Tait's Mag. VIII. 110/1 The father prideful as the scene reveals, And the fond mother smiling as she feels. 1848Talfourd Final Mem. Lamb 300, I well remember the flush of prideful pleasure which came over his face. 1897H. W. Strong in Westm. Gaz. 14 July 2/1 He may, in a prideful moment, declaim Cowper: I am monarch of all I survey; My right there is none to dispute. 1939Sun (Baltimore) 19 Oct. 11/3 She was very prideful of this, and when she finished Bill..went over and congratulated her. a1967A. Ransome Autobiogr. (1976) i. 19, I was practising day in day out the simpler conjuring tricks that were to lead me to the prideful moments of a professional magician who, before vast audiences, should produce rabbits out of a hat. 1968Globe & Mail (Toronto) 17 Feb. 28 They find they can now choose from a prideful list for entertaining..or just revel in that greatest joy of all..a leisurely candlelit dinner with fine wines and matching service. 1978J. Carroll Mortal Friends i. v. 56 Collins was aware of the pleasure, the prideful pleasure, Brady was taking in his words.
Hence ˈpridefully adv., in a prideful manner; with pride; ˈpridefulness, proudness, pride.
16..Lindesay (Pitscottie) Chron. Scot. (MS. F. 16 b), The king, hearing of this prydfullness [S.T.S. I. 82 prudeness]. a1670Spalding Troub. Chas. I (1851) II. 256 The toun thocht evill of Haddochis behaveour, to ryde so prydfullie about thair cross. 1820Scott Monast. viii, A white kirtle the wench wears..and a blue hood, that might weel be spared, for pridefulness. 1843Carlyle Past & Pr. ii. iii, The man..had walked..humbly and valiantly with God..instead of walking sumptuously and pridefully with Mammon. 1865Ruskin Sesame 159 Strange that they will complacently and pridefully bind up whatever vice or folly there is in them. 1947S. J. Perelman Westward Ha! (1949) x. 123 His new ball-point fountain pen, which he had been exhibiting pridefully all morning. 1977Time 14 Feb. 56/3 A play that will most appeal to people of the sort he has so wickedly satirized—the pridefully literate. |