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unpride en · NOUN

Etymology

From un- (“lack or absence of”) + pride.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The lack or absence of pride; pridelessness; modesty; humility.
    • They take pride in their unpride. It reflects their lack of status. Bottom of the android world, bottom of the bottom of the human world, and they know it, and they don't like it, and the squalor is like a badge of nonstatus for them. 1970, Robert Silverberg, Tower of Glass:
    • This will teach you unpride, unegotism, unselfishness. 2007, John C. Wright, The Phoenix Exultant: