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misproud en · ADJ

Etymology

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

Meanings

1. (archaic) Unduly or unwarrantably proud or vain; wrongly proud; arrogant; haughty.
   • "[...] He hath, I know not how, wrung forth a noble haunch of venison and store of Bourdeaux wine from some misproud malignant here at Naseby!" 2004, Henry William Herbert, Cromwell An Historical Novel:
   • [...] 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. 1838, Knickerbocker, or, New-York monthly magazine, volume 11, page 124:
   • 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. 1499, John Skelton, The Bowge of Courte:
   • Yet was the song acclaimed of these aloud Whose praise had made mute bumbleness misproud, [...] 2002, Algernon Charles Swinburne, L. M. Findlay, Selected Poems:
   • See, in the distance advancing, Richmond's misproud array, Fighting for Henry the traitor. 1904, The Lutheran observer - Volume 72 - Page 441

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