| 释义 |
ˈprideless, a.
[f. pride n.1 + -less.]
Devoid of pride (either in bad or good sense); having, feeling, or manifesting no pride.
c1386Chaucer Clerk's T. 874 Ful of pacient benyngnytee Discreet and pridelees. 1508Dunbar Flyting 115 Thow lay full prydles in the peise this somer. 1703Tate Her Majesty's Pict. xiii, Behold 'em now, Pacifick and Serene, With Prideless Pomp, possess'd by Britain's Queen! 1817Coleridge Biog. Lit. xxii. (1882) 216 This lofty, yet prideless impartiality in poetry. 1889Pall Mall G. 26 Aug. 3/1 The prideless, drunken parent feels no humiliation in going before the managers pleading poverty. |