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Ps. xxxvi. 11.

That hardly we escaped the pride of France.

Shak.

4. That of which one is proud; that which excites boasting or self-gratulation; the occasion or ground of self- esteem, or of arrogant and presumptuous confidence, as beauty, ornament, noble character, children, etc.

Lofty trees yclad with summer's pride.

Spenser.

I will cut off the pride of the Philistines.

Zech. ix. 6.

A bold peasantry, their country's pride.

Goldsmith.

5. Show; ostentation; glory.

Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war.

Shak.

6. Highest pitch; elevation reached; loftiness; prime; glory; as, to be in the pride of one's life.

A falcon, towering in her pride of place.

Shak.

7. Consciousness of power; fullness of animal spirits; mettle; wantonness; hence, lust; sexual desire; esp., an excitement of sexual appetite in a female beast. [Obs.]

Pride of India, or Pride of China. (Bot.) See Margosa. -- Pride of the desert (Zoˆl.), the camel.

Syn. -- Self-exaltation; conceit; hauteur; haughtiness; lordliness; loftiness. -- Pride, Vanity. Pride is a high or an excessive esteem of one's self for some real or imagined superiority, as rank, wealth, talents, character, etc. Vanity is the love of being admired, praised, exalted, etc., by others. Vanity is an ostentation of pride; but one may have great pride without displaying it. Vanity, which is etymologically "emptiness," is applied especially to the exhibition of pride in superficialities, as beauty, dress, wealth, etc.

Pride, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Prided; p. pr. & vb. n. Priding.] To indulge in pride, or self-esteem; to rate highly; to plume; -- used reflexively. Bp. Hall.

Pluming and priding himself in all his services.

South.

Pride, v. i. To be proud; to glory. [R.]

Pride"ful (?), a. Full of pride; haughty. Tennyson.

-- Pride"ful*ly, adv. -- Pride"ful- ness, n.

Pride"less, a. Without pride. Chaucer.

Prid"i*an (?), a. [L. pridianus.] Of or pertaining to the day before, or yesterday. [R.] Thackeray.

Prid"ing*ly (?), adv. Proudly. [Obs.]