Meaning of orgueil | Babel Free

Definitions

Pride.

archaic

Examples

“Four times, with his orgueil, his love of magnificence, he condemned himself incongruously to the modern and familiar, groaning at every step over the horrible difficulty of reconciling "style " in such cases with truth and dialogue with surface.”

“Smet, in his second study of Verhaeren, [tries] to define the poet's attitude to Catholicism as one of Pride. It was his orgueil that weaned him from the faith and stood henceforth, an inexorable sentinel at the door of his heart, forbidding God to enter.”

“Shaka has been betrayed by two of his generals, but they have merely succeeded in taking advantage of his orgueil, his pride, and his desire for omnipotence.”

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