pride

IPA: prˈaɪd

The quality or state of being proud; an unreasonable overestimation of one's own superiority in terms of talents, looks, wealth, importance etc., which comes across as being lofty, distant, and often showing contempt of others.
(having a positive sense, often with of or in) A sense of one's own worth, and scorn for what is beneath or unworthy of oneself.
Proud or disdainful behavior or treatment; insolence or arrogance of demeanor; haughty bearing and conduct; insolent exultation.
That of which one is proud; that which excites boasting or self-congratulation; the occasion or ground of self-esteem, or of arrogant and presumptuous confidence, as beauty, ornament, noble character, children, etc.
Show; ostentation; glory.
Highest pitch; elevation reached; loftiness; prime; glory.
Consciousness of power; fullness of animal spirits; mettle; wantonness.
Lust; sexual desire; especially, excitement of sexual appetite in a female animal.
(zoology, collective) A company of lions or other large felines.
(zoology) The small European lamprey species Petromyzon branchialis.
A festival primarily for LGBT people, usually organized annually within a city.
A movement encouraging a positive approach to personal identity amongst LGBT people.
A surname.
Alternative letter-case form of Pride (“festival for LGBT people”). [A festival primarily for LGBT people, usually organized annually within a city.]

Examples of "pride" in Sentences

Better fall, with what you call pride, than stand with meanness.
_A just pride, a proper and becoming pride_, are terms which we daily hear from
And your leSbn, fo far from teaching humility, fcems rather to juftify what you term pride*
But his pride is already chasing after the mope, dragging all the rest of him along with it.
I. i.172 (320,1) strain'd pride] The oldest copy reads _strayed pride_; that is, _pride exorbitant_; pride passing due bounds.
In line 508 ‘pride’ hardly gives full expression to the idea of _wlence, _ which signifies not only _pride_, but _vain pride, of empty end_.
Whether that means going to food stamps, or taking advantage of some other program for the indigent, swallowing your pride is a much better option than running up a ton of debt.
Between Blackburn Hill and Enderly Road very little social intercourse existed and, as the Road people resented what they called the pride of Blackburn Hill, there was a good deal of bad feeling between the two districts.
Temperate men are not governed in their religious researches by the pride of peculiarity nor the influence of party views, and a faithful trial ought to have been made in order to convince of error before the charge of _pride of peculiarity_, or the influence of party views, could with propriety have been made.