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orgulous, orgillous, a. arch.|ˈɔːgjʊləs, ˈɔːgɪləs|
Forms: 3 orgeilus, 4–6 (9 arch.) orgulous, 5 orguillous, -eux, orguylleus, 5–6 orguyll-, 6 orguly-, orgueil-, orguell-, orgyllous, orgullows, 6 (9 arch.) orgullous, 7 (9 arch.) orgillous.
[a. OF. orguillus, -goillus (11th c.), orguilleus (12th c.), AF. orguillous (Gower), mod.F. orgueilleux = Pr. orguelhos, orgoillos, Sp. orgulloso, It. orgoglioso, f. orgueil, etc., ‘pride’: see orgueil and -ous. Used once by Shakes., and retained in the 1634 modernization of Malory's Morte Arthur, but app. obs. from 16th c., until employed as a historical archaism by Southey and Scott, and affected by late 19th c. journalists.]
a. Proud, haughty.
c1250Old Kent. Serm. in O.E. Misc. 30 Of þo euele manne good man, of þe orgeilus umble. c1330Arth. & Merl. 9344 Thai to driuen four kingis orgulous. a1450Knt. de la Tour (1868) 84 Thorugh her orguylleus port..throwen doune of her worshippe and astate. 1470–85Malory Arthur xx. xvii, And I were as orgulous sette as ye are. 1481Caxton Reynard xvii. (Arb.) 36 He was so prowde and orguillous. a1529Skelton Replyc. Wks. 1862 II. 234 Odyous, orgulyous, and flyblowen opynions. 1529Art. agst. Wolsey in Ld. Herbert Hen. VIII (1683) 294 The Lord Cardinal of York..of his high, orgullous, and insatiable mind. 1592W. Wyrley Armorie 150 The English orgulous words did say Gainst Lord Cowcie. 1606Shakes. Tr. & Cr. Prol. 2 From Iles of Greece The Princes Orgillous, their high blood chaf'd, Haue to the Port of Athens sent their shippes. 1808Southey Chron. Cid 239 They are of high blood and full orgullous, and I have no liking to this match. 1820Scott Monast. xxi, Punished for your outrecuidance and orgillous presumption. 1848Lytton Harold v. iii, This our orgulous Earl shall not have his triumph. 1890Sat. Rev. 12 July 29/2 Lord Rosebery tore things to shreds..in the best and most orgillous fashion. 1922Joyce Ulysses 383 Then spoke young Stephen orgulous of mother Church that would cast him out of her bosom. 1928V. Woolf Orlando i. 46 There was an orgulous credulity about him which was pleasant enough. Ibid. iv. 151 A covey of swans floated, orgulous, undulant, superb. 1929Wyndham Lewis King Spider (1930) iv. 227 Charles, baffled here, turns his eyes elsewhere, filled with orgulous dreams. His imagination and his early successes have turned his head. 1941Auden New Year Let. 187 That the orgulous spirit may while it can Conform to its temporal focus with praise. 1946E. Linklater Dark of Summer 60 Coloured prints..all were bright, fantastic, orgulous—and serenely defiant of war and the cold Atlantic. 1976M. Spark Takeover x. 147 This confidence..frequently over-rides with an orgulous scorn any small blatant contradictory facts.
b. fig. Splendid.
c. Swelling, violent.
13..Coer de L. 272 His atyre was orgulous. 1484Caxton Curiall 2 Better in humble tranquillyte than in orguyllous myserye. 1525Ld. Berners Froiss. II. cii. [xcviii.] 297 They wyst nat how to passe y⊇ ryuer of Derne, whiche was full and orgulous at certayne tymes. 1610P. Barrough Meth. Physick vi. iii. (1639) 363 These most orgueilous and extreme paines are caused of a very moist and maligne vapour.
Hence † ˈorgulously adv.
c1475Partenay 3543 Off A fers behold, orgulously wrought, Als with the behold of his eyes twain. |