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orgueil

orgueil noun: pride.

Noun

orgueil

  1. (archaic) Pride.
    • Four times, with his orgueil, his love of magnificence, he condemned himself incongruously to the modern and familiar, groaning at every step over the horrible difficulty of reconciling "style " in such cases with truth and dialogue with surface.1893, Henry James, Essays in London and Elsewhere, page 145
    • Smet, in his second study of Verhaeren, [tries] to define the poet's attitude to Catholicism as one of Pride. It was his orgueil that weaned him from the faith and stood henceforth, an inexorable sentinel at the door of his heart, forbidding God to enter.1926, Percy Mansell Jones, Verhaeren

Origin of orgueil

In older uses, from Middle English orguile, from Old French orgueil, from Vulgar Latin *orgollium, from Proto-West Germanic *uʀgōllju, from Proto-Germanic *uzgōljō. (Compare Old English orgol, orgel (“pride”). For more, see Old English or- (“out”) + *gōl (“boast; showiness; pomp; splendor”) / English gale (“sing”).) Cognate with Old High German urguol, urguoli, urgilo (“pride”) and Spanish orgullo. In modern uses sometimes a fresh borrowing from French orgueil.

Questions about orgueil

What does orgueil mean?
Orgueil means pride.
What part of speech is orgueil?
Orgueil is a noun.

Words near orgueil in the dictionary

  1. orgonomy
  2. Orgosolo
  3. Orgreave
  4. orgs
  5. orgue
  6. orgueil
  7. orgues
  8. orguinette
  9. orguinettes
  10. orgulity
  11. orgulous

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