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c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Royal) 1 John ii. 16 Coueytise of flesch and coueytise of iȝen and pride of lijf [L. superbia vitæ, Gk. ἡ ἀλαζονεία τοῦ βίου. So 1611; R.V. vainglory of life].

a1425 (a1400) Prick of Conscience (Galba & Harl.) (1863) 1129 (MED) Al þat in world men tel can, Es outher yhernyng of þe flesshe of man..Or pride of lyfe.

1582 R. Parsons First Bk. Christian Exercise ii. iii. 310 The sixthe vanitie belonging to pryde of lyfe, is the glorie of syne apparell.

1585 T. Bilson True Difference Christian Subiection i. 75 Grant thee not at euery..request, lest we seem to bring the smoky pride of the world into the Church of Christ.

1612 T. Taylor Αρχὴν Ἁπάντων: Comm. Epist. Paul to Titus ii. xii. 465 Doe they not then (as one Philosopher said of an other) contemne the pride of the world, but with more pride?

1729 W. Law Serious Call iv. 49 It is not left to the rich to gratify their passions in the indulgencies and pride of life.

1729 W. Law Serious Call vi. 82 In conforming to those fashions, and pride of the world.

1842 Milwaukie (Wisconsin Territory) Sentinel 14 Sept. She who had watched over his infancy with all the tender solicitude which a mother can possibly feel for her offspring—allowing the false pride of the world to gain the mastery over her maternal feeling, waved him off.

1889 Denton (Maryland) Jrnl. 11 May Watch! lest you be deceived by the love of money, the lust of the flesh and the pride of the world.

1903 H. James Ambassadors iii. vii. 89 Wide as his glimpse had lately become of the empire of ‘things’, what was before him still enlarged it; the lust of the eyes and the pride of life had indeed thus their temple.