proudhearted
See also: proud-hearted
English
Alternative forms
- proud-hearted
Etymology
From Middle English proude-herted, prowd-herted, equivalent to proud + hearted.
Adjective
proudhearted (comparative more proudhearted, superlative most proudhearted)
- Very proud
- 2014, John R. Van Atta, Securing the West: Politics, Public Lands, and the Fate of the Old Republic 1785-1850, →ISBN, page 221:
- This “vicious, corrupt, and debased swarm of outcasts,” Merrick called them, would make an “honest and proudhearted” American freeman “rather die in poverty and want, than dwell among such people.”
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- Arrogant
- 2005, Sheila Carmel & Hana Wirth-Nesher, The Sheila Carmel lectures, 1994-2004, page 180:
- I am afraid I have been proudhearted and arrogant.
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