Meanings
comparative more proud-hearted · superlative most proud-hearted
- 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 701 more example
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
- Middle Englishproude-herted
- Englishproud-hearted
From Middle English proude-herted, prowd-herted, equivalent to proud + hearted.
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