misproud

Definitions

Unduly or unwarrantably proud or vain; wrongly proud; arrogant; haughty.

archaic

Examples

“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⟳.”

“[...] 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.”

“See⟳, in the distance advancing, Richmond's misproud array, Fighting for Henry the traitor.”

“Yet was the song acclaimed of these aloud Whose praise⟳ had made mute bumbleness misproud, [...]”

“"[...] 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!"”

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