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单词 prideless
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pridelessadj.

Brit. /ˈprʌɪdlᵻs/, U.S. /ˈpraɪdlᵻs/
Forms: see pride n.1 and -less suffix; also Middle English proudles, Middle English proudeles.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: pride n.1, -less suffix.
Etymology: < pride n.1 + -less suffix.In the forms proudles , proudeles apparently by association with proud adj., although compare also proud n. 2.
Devoid of pride; having, feeling, or manifesting a lack of pride.
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c1395 G. Chaucer Clerk's Tale 930 Hir goost was euere in pleyn humylitee..Discreet and pridelees [v.rr. prideles, pruydeles, prydles, proudles, proudeles].
a1500 (c1370) G. Chaucer Complaint to his Lady 25 Hir name is Bountee, set in womanhede, Sadnesse in youthe, and Beautee prydelees [v.r. prydelesse].
a1513 W. Dunbar Flyting in Poems (1998) I. 204 Thow lay full prydles in the peis this somer.
1682 E. Settle Absalom Senior 30 Heaven cast his Soul in the same Beauteous Mould; With all the sweets of Prideless Greatness blest.
1703 N. Tate Portrait-royal 8 Behold 'em, now, Pacifick and Serene, With Prideless Pomp, possess'd by Britain's Queen!
1730 E. Ward To Humphrey Parsons 22 Sincere and indefatigably Kind, Prideless and Generous.
1817 S. T. Coleridge Biogr. Lit. (1882) xxii. 216 This lofty, yet prideless impartiality in poetry.
1889 Pall Mall Gaz. 26 Aug. 3/1 The prideless, drunken parent feels no humiliation in going before the managers pleading poverty.
1928 Bee (Danville, Va.) 26 Dec. 2/6 As long as we have prideless women who grovel at the feet of the men who mistreat them, we will have husbands who trample their wives and kick them about.
1993 J. Meades Pompey (1994) 420 He dog-eyed Bonny with sly prideless lust.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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