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misproud

adj

Etymology

From Middle English misproud, equivalent to mis- + proud.

  1. inherited from misproud

Definitions

  1. Unduly or unwarrantably proud or vain

    Unduly or unwarrantably proud or vain; wrongly proud; arrogant; haughty.

    • It is grete scorne to se a mysproude knave / With a clerke that connynge is to prate: / Lete theym go lowse theym, in the devylles date.
    • [...] dismount two hundred of our best dragooners, and, under Fight-the-good-fight Egerton, let them file down that gully to our left, and fire constantly on the advance of these misproud malignants.
    • See, in the distance advancing, Richmond's misproud array, Fighting for Henry the traitor.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA