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proudhearted

proudhearted adjective: very proud.

Adjective

proudhearted (comparative more proudhearted, superlative most proudhearted)

  1. Very proud
    • This “vicious, corrupt, and debased swarm of outcasts,” Merrick called them, would make an “honest and proudhearted” American freeman “rather die in poverty and want, than dwell among such people.”2014, John R. Van Atta, Securing the West: Politics, Public Lands, and the Fate of the Old Republic 1785-1850, →ISBN, page 221
  2. Arrogant
    • I am afraid I have been proudhearted and arrogant.2005, Sheila Carmel, Hana Wirth-Nesher, The Sheila Carmel lectures, 1994-2004, page 180

Forms of proudhearted

comparativemore proudhearted
superlativemost proudhearted
alternative formproud-hearted

Origin of proudhearted

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

Words formed from proudhearted

Questions about proudhearted

What does proudhearted mean?
Proudhearted means very proud.
What part of speech is proudhearted?
Proudhearted is an adjective.

Words near proudhearted in the dictionary

  1. Proudfoot
  2. Proudfoots
  3. proudful
  4. proudfully
  5. proudfulness
  6. proudhearted
  7. proudheartedly
  8. proudheartedness
  9. Proudhonian
  10. Proudhonism
  11. Proudhonist

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