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pride wenteth before a fall en · X

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  1. (alt-of, alternative, hypercorrect, nonstandard, qualifier:pseudo-archaic) Alternative form of pride comes before a fall.
    • By the time I reached the Navy my love of steam preceded me, and I became the stoker for a rickety steam cutter inherited from the Maine. Pride wenteth before a fall; I put the slice bar through one of the cutter’s tubes — and lost my job in a hasty exit over the side. 1968, Robert Welch, American Opinion, XI, page 59:
    • Where was my pride? Pride wenteth before a fall. The hell with pride. 1979, Blossom Elfman, The Sister Act, page 44:
    • Brock’s foot touched the plate just as he and Freehan’s mitt with the ball in it met. Normally, a tie was given to the runner, but the umpire must have believed that pride wenteth before a fall and called Brock out. 2007, David Renner, Memoirs of a Fool, I, page 171: