Hello, you have come here looking for the meaning of the word
misproud. In DICTIOUS you will not only get to know all the dictionary meanings for the word
misproud, but we will also tell you about its etymology, its characteristics and you will know how to say
misproud in singular and plural. Everything you need to know about the word
misproud you have here. The definition of the word
misproud will help you to be more precise and correct when speaking or writing your texts. Knowing the definition of
misproud, as well as those of other words, enriches your vocabulary and provides you with more and better linguistic resources.
English
Etymology
From Middle English misproud, equivalent to mis- + proud.
Adjective
misproud (comparative more misproud, superlative most misproud)
- (archaic) Unduly or unwarrantably proud or vain; wrongly proud; arrogant; haughty.
1499, John Skelton, The Bowge of Courte:It is grete scorne to se a mysproude knave / With a clerke that connynge is to prate: / Lete theym go lowse theym, in the devylles date.
1838, Knickerbocker, or, New-York monthly magazine, volume 11, page 124:[...] dismount two hundred of our best dragooners, and, under Fight-the-good-fight Egerton, let them file down that gully to our left, and fire constantly on the advance of these misproud malignants.
- 1904, The Lutheran observer - Volume 72 - Page 441:
- See, in the distance advancing, Richmond's misproud array, Fighting for Henry the traitor.
2002, Algernon Charles Swinburne, L. M. Findlay, Selected Poems:Yet was the song acclaimed of these aloud Whose praise had made mute bumbleness misproud, [...]
2004, Henry William Herbert, Cromwell An Historical Novel:"[...] He hath, I know not how, wrung forth a noble haunch of venison and store of Bourdeaux wine from some misproud malignant here at Naseby!"
Anagrams