proud

comparative prouder · comparative more proud · superlative proudest · superlative most proud · alternative obsolete prowd

1. Feeling honoured (by something); feeling happy or satisfied about an event or fact; gratified.

   We're proud of having won / to have won.

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   LETO: Thufir Hawat has served House Atreides three generations. He swears you are the finest student he has ever taught. Yueh, Gurney and Duncan say the same. Makes me feel very proud. PAUL: I want you to be proud of me.

   1984, 19:33 from the start, in Dune (Science Fiction), spoken by Leto Atreides and Paul Atreides, →OCLC

   Shepard: It's been a long journey, and no one's coming out without scars. But it all comes down to this moment. Shepard: We win or lose it all in the next few minutes. Make me proud. Make yourselves proud.

   2010, BioWare, Mass Effect 2 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Collector Base

   1. That makes one feel proud (of something one did)

      That was not the proudest thing I did but I can’t deny it.

2. Possessed of a due sense of what one deserves or is worth.

   I was too proud to apologise.

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   I remember a lady coming to inspect St. Mary's Home where I was brought up and seeing us all in our lovely Elizabethan uniforms we were so proud of, and bursting into tears all over us because "it was wicked to dress us like charity children". We nearly crowned her we were so offended.

   1963, Margery Allingham, “Justifiably Angry Young Man”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC, page 93

   Synonyms: self-confident, arrogant

3. biblicalHaving too high an opinion of oneself; arrogant, supercilious, prideful.

   Death be not proud; though ſome have called thee / Mighty and dreadfull, for, thou art not ſoe, [...]

   1609 February–August (date written), J[ohn] Donne, “[Holy Sonnets] Sonnet VI [Death Be Not Proud]”, in Poems, […] with Elegies on the Authors Death, London: […] M[iles] F[lesher] for Iohn Marriot, […], published 1633, →OCLC, page 35

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   Every one that is proud in heart is an abomination to the Lord: though hand ioyne in hand, he ſhall not be vnpuniſhed.

   1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Proverbs 16:5

   Godolphin Horne was Nobly Born; / He held the human race in scorn, / And lived with all his sisters where / His father lived, in Berkeley Square. / And oh! The lad was deathly proud! / He never shook your hand or bowed, / But merely smirked and nodded thus: / How perfectly ridiculous! / Alas! That such Affected Tricks / Should flourish in a child of six!

   1907, Hilaire Belloc, Cautionary Tales for Children, Godolphin Horne Who was cursed with the Sin of Pride, and Became a Boot-Black

4. Generating a sense of pride; being a cause for pride.

   It was a proud day when we finally won the championship.

5. Of thingsstanding upwards as in the manner of a proud person; stately or majestic.

   Norsus [...] walked between the lines of soldiers in their bronze armour; keen swords in their hands and proud plumes fluttering from their helmets.

   1966, James Workman, The Mad Emperor, Melbourne, Sydney: Scripts, page 77

6. Standing out or raised; swollen.

   After it had healed, the scar tissue stood proud of his flesh.

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   The weld was still a bit proud of the panel, so she ground it down flush.

7. obsoleteBrave, valiant; gallant.
8. obsoleteExcited by sexual desire; specifically of a female animal: in heat.

plural Prouds

1. A characteristical surname.