pridefuladj.
/ˈprʌɪdfᵿl/, U.S. /ˈpraɪdfəl/, Scottish English /ˈprʌidfəl/ Chiefly Scottish and North American.
1. Of a person: haughty, arrogant, having a proud character; (of an action, emotion, etc.) resulting from haughty pride or arrogance.
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the mind > emotion > pride > [adjective] > filled with pride or made proud
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prouded1602
uplifted1609
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c1429 Mirour Mans Saluacioune (1986) l. 4039 Some man wille he inpugne be pridefulle bolnyng.
1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) iii. l. 137 In prydefull Ire.
1533 J. Gau tr. C. Pedersen Richt Vay 12 Thay quhilk ar pridful of thair wisdome or science.
a1572 J. Knox Hist. Reformation Scotl. in Wks. (1846) I. 155 The pridefull and scornefull people that stood by, mocked him.
c1650 J. Spalding Memorialls Trubles Scotl. & Eng. (1850) I. 231 Feiring he wes prydfull and seditious.
1661 S. Pordage Mundorum Explicatio i. 86 Humility Prince of this Train, first go Into the Earth, confront thy prideful Foe.
1744 P. Whitehead Gymnasiad ii. 22 High Disdain sat prideful on his Brow.
1786 R. Burns Tam o' Shanter 144 in Poems & Songs (1968) I. 142 Some rascal's pridefu' greed to quench.
1834 S. T. Coleridge Alice du Clos in Poet. Wks. II. 58 As if in prideful scorn Of flight and fear he stay'd behind.
1838 Southern Literary Messenger Oct. 663/2 How frequently is the ‘olden ballad’ the prideful theme of our native poets.
c1843 T. Carlyle Hist. Sketches (1898) 340 Why should not such a man be prideful?
1900 Cent. Mag. Dec. 293 The doctor's stately and prideful wife.
1925 E. C. Smith Mang Howes 19 A'm seek-staaed o the..priedfih bluistereen that a body offen hes ti thole.
1956 B. Chute Greenwillow v. 64 He's prideful, and that's a sin, but he's been good to me.
2004 D. Morris Rewriting Hist. iv. 83 An apology can work where stonewalling and prideful refusal to admit wrongdoing does not.
2. Taking pride in some particular fact, action, or achievement; accompanied by, prompting, or meriting a feeling of pride in some action, achievement, etc.
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the mind > emotion > pride > [adjective] > proud of or taking pride in
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the mind > emotion > pleasure > [adjective] > pleased or filled with pleasure > pleased at something > at some fact or achievement
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1841 Tait's Edinb. Mag. 8 110/1 The father prideful as the scene reveals, And the fond mother smiling as she feels.
1848 T. N. Talfourd Final Mem. Lamb 300 I well remember the flush of prideful pleasure which came over his face.
1897 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.
1939 Sun (Baltimore) 19 Oct. 11/3 She was very prideful of this, and when she finished Bill..went over and congratulated her.
a1967 A. 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.
1985 C. Yeager & L. Janos Yeager (1986) 12 I was prideful about keeping my word.
2004 F. Foer How Soccer explains World iii. 78 Tottenham fans actually apply the moniker to themselves in a complimentary, prideful way.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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