pridefullyadv.
/ˈprʌɪdfᵿli/, U.S. /ˈpraɪdfəli/, Scottish English /ˈprʌidfəlɪ/ Chiefly Scottish and North American.
In a prideful manner; with pride, proudly.
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the mind > emotion > pride > [adverb]
sideOE
highOE
proudlyOE
proudc1384
moodilyc1400
highlya1425
orgulousa1470
strutlyc1480
orgulouslya1500
loftily1548
stoutlya1554
state1579
garishly1593
pridefullya1600
aloft1613
great1625
pridinglya1677
Olympically1839
a1600 (?c1535) tr. H. Boece Hist. Scotl. (Mar Lodge) (1946) 91 b Romanis pridefully [L. superbissime] stiling thame self lordis of the warld & avanting thame.
c1650 J. Spalding Memorialls Trubles Scotl. & Eng. (1851) II. 256 The toun thocht evill of Haddochis behaveour, to ryde so prydfullie about thair cross.
1772 G. Buchanan's Paraphr. Psalms i. xxxi. 67 Let the tongue accustomed to lying, the tongue which used wantonly to provoke and pridefully slight good men, be put to silence.
1843 T. Carlyle Past & Present ii. iii. 72 The man..had walked..humbly and valiantly with God..instead of walking sumptuously and pridefully with Mammon.
1865 J. Ruskin Sesame & Lilies ii. 159 Strange, that they will complacently and pridefully bind up whatever vice or folly there is in them.
1947 S. J. Perelman Westward Ha! (1949) x. 123 His new ball-point fountain pen, which he had been exhibiting pridefully all morning.
1977 Time 14 Feb. 56/3 A play that will most appeal to people of the sort he has so wickedly satirized—the pridefully literate.
2004 Bismarck (N. Dakota) Tribune (Nexis) 23 May 4 While the expedition's story speaks pridefully of self-sufficiency, it also speaks eloquently of cooperation and sharing.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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