Pride

prīd, n. state or feeling of being proud: too great self-esteem: haughtine : overbearing treatment of others: a proper sense of what is becoming to one's self: a feeling of pleasure on account of something worthily done: that of which men are proud: that which excites boasting: elevation, loftine : beauty displayed, ornament, ostentation: high spirit, mettle: ( Shak. ) lust.— v.t. to have or take pride: to value, as one's self, .— adj. Pride′ful .— adv. Pride′fully .— n. Pride′fulne .— adj. Pride′le . [A.S. prýte — prút , proud.]