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This I know, only she is proud--proud with the Barclay pride; but in her heart she loves you is not that enough?'

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  1. adjective Feeling pleasurable satisfaction over an act, possession, quality, or relationship by which one measures one's stature or self-worth: proud of one's child; proud to serve one's country.
  2. adjective Occasioning or being a reason for pride: "On January 1, 1900, Americans and Europeans greeted the twentieth century in the proud and certain belief that the next hundred years would make all things possible” (W. Bruce Lincoln).
  3. adjective Feeling or showing justifiable self-respect.
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  • Each of them -- proud, free, unafraid to speak stupidity to power -- is like a homeowner whose house is on fire and yet who refuses to let the fire fighters turn a hose on the flames because "it'll get my stuff all wet." —  The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
  • Forget about being state proud or country proud, we are not even city proud or street proud, which is what makes my heart bleed. —  Screen News
  • So my message to the man in the video is: blaze on, you backwards over-proud *****. —  Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz
  • I did not like that gude wife; she was purse-proud, and took every opportunity of treating with scorn a poor neighbour who had had a misfortune_, that is, a child by her husband before marriage, but who made a very good wife. —  Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville
  • You could not love him because you are too proud--no, not proud, that is an error; because you are too vain--no, not quite that either; too self-loving; you are self-loving to madness. —  The Idiot
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English, from Old English prūd, from Old French prou, prud, brave, virtuous, oblique case of prouz, from Vulgar Latin *prōdis, from Late Latin prōde, advantageous, from Latin prōdesse, to be good : prōd-, for (variant of prō-, with d on the model of red-, prevocalic variant of re-, back, again; see pro-1) + esse, to be; see es- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English proud, prowd, prud, earlier prout, prut, from Anglo-Saxon prūt, proud (very rare); cf. deriv. prūtung (verbal noun), pride, pry¯te, pride (later English pride); root unknown. The Icelandic prūdhr, proud, Danish prud, stately, magnificent, are apparently from the Anglo-Saxon
  2. from Middle English prouden, pruden, prouten, from Anglo-Saxon *prūtian (in verbal noun prūtung), pry¯tian, be proud, from prūt, proud: see proud, adjective Cf. pride, v.
 

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