proude

Adjective

proud (comparative prouder or more proud, superlative proudest or most proud)

1. Feeling honoured (by something); feeling happy or satisfied about an event or fact; gratified.
   • We're proud of having won / to have won.
   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.

   Synonyms:

   self-confident, arrogant

3. Having too high an opinion of oneself; arrogant, supercilious, prideful.
   • 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
4. Generating a sense of pride; being a cause for pride.
   • It was a proud day when we finally won the championship.
5. (Of things) standing 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

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