[Vergil].
pride; haughtiness &c adj.; high notions, hauteur; vainglory,
crest; arrogance &c (assumption) 885.
proud man, highflier†; fine gentleman, fine lady.
V. be proud &c adj.; put a good face on; look one in the face; stalk
abroad, perk oneself up; think no small beer of oneself; presume,
swagger, strut; rear one's head, lift up one's head, hold up one's
head; hold one's head high, look big, take the wall, bear like the Turk
no rival near the throne [Pope], carry with a high hand; ride the high
horse, mount on one's high horse; set one's back up, bridle, toss the
head; give oneself airs &c (assume) 885; boast &c 884.
pride oneself on; glory in, take a pride in; pique oneself, plume
oneself, hug oneself; stand upon, be proud of; put a good face on; not
hide one's light under a bushel, not put one's talent in a napkin; not
think small beer of oneself &c (vanity) 880.
Adj. dignified; stately; proud, proud-crested; lordly, baronial; lofty-
minded; highsouled, high-minded, high-mettled†, high-handed, high-
plumed, high-flown, high-toned.
haughty lofty, high, mighty, swollen, puffed up, flushed, blown;
vainglorious; purse-proud, fine; proud as a peacock, proud as Lucifer;
bloated with pride.
supercilious, disdainful, bumptious, magisterial, imperious, high
and mighty, overweening, consequential; arrogant &c 885; unblushing &c
880.
stiff, stiff-necked; starch; perked stuck-up; in buckram, strait-
laced; prim &c (affected) 855.
on one's dignity, on one's high horses, on one's tight ropes, on
one's high ropes; on stilts; en grand seigneur [Fr.].
Adv. with head erect.
Phr. odi profanum vulgus et arceo [Lat.] [Horace].
a duke's revenues on her back [Henry VI]; disdains the shadow
which he treads on at noon [Coriolanis]; pride in their port, defiance
in their eye [Goldsmith].