surquedry

Definitions

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

noun Overweening pride; arrogance; presumption; insolence.

Examples

What so reasonable as that we should be punished for our pride and contumacy, by a judgment specially calculated to abate and bend that spirit of surquedry?

The Betrothed

Note

The word 'surquedry' comes from an old French word meaning 'to overthink'.