proud-hearted

A form of proudhearted — Very proud

Meanings

adjectiveproud-hearted (comparative more proud-hearted, superlative most proud-hearted)

comparative more proud-hearted · superlative most proud-hearted

  1. alternativeAlternative form of proudhearted.

    ...there seems to me something, if I may so speak, almost God-like in the pure and devoted love of a strong proud-hearted man towards his mother;

    1852, Elizabeth Caroline Grey, Mary Seaham, page 70
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    But a few days previously I had beheld this proud-hearted Princess walking the Prado with her family, with sullen and almost disdainful air, scarce noticing the salutations of the well-dressed throngs which bowed, with uncovered head, as she passed.

    2001, Pierre Munroe Irving, The Life and Letters of Washington Irving, →ISBN, page 321

Origin

  1. Middle Englishproude-herted
  2. Englishproud-hearted

From Middle English proude-herted, prowd-herted, equivalent to proud + hearted.

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Chicago

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