orgulous

comparative more orgulous · superlative most orgulous · alternative orgillous · alternative orgueilous

1. archaicliteraryArrogant, haughty, proud.

   Then spoke young Stephen orgulous of mother Church that would cast him out of her bosom.

   1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 1: Telemachus]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC, part I [Telemachia], page 14

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   At that time there was a knight, the which was the king's son of Ireland, and his name was Lanceor, the which was an orgulous knight, and counted himself one of the best of the court; and he had great despite at Balin for the achieving of the sword, that any should be accounted more hardy, or of more prowess.

   [1470–1485 (date produced), Thomas Malory, “Capitulum IV”, in [Le Morte Darthur], book II (in Middle English), [London: […] by William Caxton], published 31 July 1485, →OCLC; republished as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer, editor, Le Morte Darthur […], London: David Nutt, […], 1889, →OCLC, page 52

   In Troy there lyes the Scene: From Iles of Greece / The Princes Orgillous, their high blood chaf'd / Haue to the Port of Athens ſent their ſhippes / […] their vovv is made / To ranſacke Troy, vvithin vvhoſe ſtrong emures / The rauiſh'd Helen, Menelaus Queene, / VVith vvanton Paris ſleepes, and that's the Quarrell.

   c. 1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida. The Prologue.”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC

   Her nephew describes her as 'an orgulous and despotic woman', and it is clear that he noticed and resented her numerous unkindnesses.

   1966, Eric Walter White, Stravinsky the Composer and his Works, University of California Press, page 5

   They knew that my lord of Arundel had grown so orgulous that he had lately dared to marry the Earl of March's sister, without license.

   1975, Georgette Heyer, My Lord John, Arrow Books, published 2011, →ISBN, pages 14–15

   Synonyms: disdainful, prideful, airy, arrogant, chesty, authoritarian, biggity, big-headed

2. archaicliteraryrareOstentatious; showy.
3. obsoleteSwollen; augmented; excessive.

   1967, John T. Sladek, Masterson and the Clerks, reprinted in Best SF Stories from New Worlds 4, edited by Michael Moorcock The smile became an orange balloon, orgulous and threatening.

4. obsoleteDangerous, threatening.