Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Proud; haughty.
- Swollen; augmented; excessive; hence, threatening; dangerous.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete See
orgillous .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
Proud ;haughty ;disdainful . - adjective
Ostentatious ;showy . - adjective
Swollen ;augmented ;excessive . - adjective
Threatening ;dangerous .
Etymologies
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Examples
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America exudes an orgulous dynamic, stretching its fatty arms to encompass all potential, all possibilities.
12 & 35 Dean Francis Alfar 2004
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America exudes an orgulous dynamic, stretching its fatty arms to encompass all potential, all possibilities.
Archive 2004-10-01 Dean Francis Alfar 2004
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Damas, are called an orgulous knight, and full of villainy, and not worth of prowess your deeds, therefore I will that ye give unto your brother all the whole manor with the appurtenance, under this form, that Sir Ontzlake hold the manor of you, and yearly to give you a palfrey to ride upon, for that will become you better to ride on than upon a courser.
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That shall not need, said Sir Launcelot, for an I were as orgulous set as ye are, wit you well I should meet you in midst of the field.
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An orgulous Turk who strikes in the dark vaults of flesh like a penile thunderbolt.
on writing by stephen king scribner 2000
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Contrast with this Japanese sage that orgulous hidalgo who, in black velvet, defies modern Prussia from one of Velasquez's canvases in Berlin.
Yet Again Max Beerbohm 1914
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He stood quite still, a figure orgulous and splendent.
Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story Max Beerbohm 1914
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He stood quite still, a figure orgulous and splendent.
Zuleika Dobson 1911
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Talisso laughed his fierce and orgulous laugh as he rode at their head and they all hurled through the gates, and, clattering up the empty street, carried the castle out of hand?
A Child's Book of Saints William Canton 1909
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And Talisso answered, with a peal of orgulous laughter: "Restless as the sea; insatiable as the grave."
A Child's Book of Saints William Canton 1909
Xanax commented on the word orgulous
Often tagged as archaic.
"At that time there was a knight, the which was the king's son of Ireland, and his name was Lanceor, the which was an orgulous knight, and counted himself one of the best of the court; and he had great despite at Balin for the achieving of the sword, that any should be accounted more hardy, or of more prowess." — Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte D'Arthur, (Book II, Chapter IV).
June 14, 2009
qms commented on the word orgulous
He was once acclaimed and orgulous
And now is defamed and notorious.
Now drowned are the cheers
In the fast flowing tears
Of wretched Oscar Pistorious.
October 13, 2014