单词 | overpride |
释义 | overpriden. Excessive pride; an instance of this. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pride > [noun] > excessive pride overpridea1300 excrescence1629 a1300 (?c1200) Prov. Alfred (Jesus Oxf.) (1955) 111 (MED) Idelschipe and ouer-prute [v.rr. orgul-prude; pride], þat lereþ yong wif vuele þewes. 1484 W. Caxton tr. Subtyl Historyes & Fables Esope xxvi I knowe wel thy ouer pryde. a1500 tr. A. Chartier Traité de l'Esperance (Rawl.) (1974) 31 (MED) For he avauncith hymself to ferre by presumptuous trust, which puttith hymself in so grette an ouirpride, and ought to be blamed. a1500 tr. A. Chartier Traité de l'Esperance (Rawl.) (1974) 41/33 (MED) Ouirpride vsurpith to haue wourschip withowt any deserte. 1817 W. Scott Rob Roy (1998) xxix. 331 By a degree of refinement..which I afterwards heard was imputed to an overpride on the part of Jeanie MacAlpine, our landlady, the apartment was accommodated with an entrance different from that used by her biped customers. 1939 S. Pribichevich World without End ii. 231 This fellow almost suffers from overpride and a superiority complex. 1952 Polit. Sci. Q. 67 628 His experimentalism is completely without the humorlessness and over-pride in human potentialities too often associated with pragmatic philosophies. 2002 Occup. Health & Safety (Nexis) 5 6 It's a helpful default habit to audit ourselves periodically for areas of rigid overpride. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1300 |
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