surquidry

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  1. Presumption; arrogance; overweening pride. What, is this Arthures hous, … That al the rous rennes of, thurʒ ryalmes so mony? Where is now your sourquydrye, & your conquestes, Your gryndel-layk, & your greme, & your grete wordes? Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight (E. E. T. S.), l. 311. How often falleth al the effect contraire Of surquidrye and foul presumpcioun. Chaucer, Troilus, i. 213.
  2. A proud, haughty, or arrogant act. Drunke with fuming surquedries, Contempt of Heaven, untam'd arrogance. Marston, Antonio and Mellida, II., iii. 2. He conceits a kind of immortality in his coffers; he denies himself no satiety, no surquedry. Rev. T. Adams, Works, II. 409.

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  1. Also surquedry; from Middle English surquidrye, surquidrie, surquedry, sourquydrye, succudry, from Old French surcuiderie, surquiderie, *sorcuiderie, presumption, arrogance, from surcuider, sorcuider, presume, be overweening: see surquidant.
 

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