Word Meanings - PROUDLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

In a proud manner; with lofty airs or mien; haughtily; arrogantly; boastfully. Proudly he marches on, and void of fear. Addison.

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• PROUDLING
  A proud or haughty person. Sylvester.
• PROUD
  prout, prud, prut, AS. prut; akin to Icel. pruedhr stately, handsome, 1. Feeling or manifesting pride, in a good or bad sense; as: Possessing or showing too great self-esteem; overrating one's excellences; hence, arrogant; haughty; lordly;
• ARROGANTLY
  In an arrogant manner; with undue pride or self-importance.
• PROUDISH
  Somewhat proud. Ash.
• MANNERIST
  One addicted to mannerism; a person who, in action, bearing, or treatment, carries characteristic peculiarities to excess. See citation under Mannerism.
• MANNERISM
  Adherence to a peculiar style or manner; a characteristic mode of action, bearing, or treatment, carried to excess, especially in literature or art. Mannerism is pardonable,and is sometimes even agreeable, when the manner, though vicious, is natural
• LOFTY
  1. Lifted high up; having great height; towering; high. See lofty Lebanon his head advance. Pope. 2. Fig.: Elevated in character, rank, dignity, spirit, bearing, language, etc.; exalted; noble; stately; characterized by pride; haughty. The high
• PROUDLY
  In a proud manner; with lofty airs or mien; haughtily; arrogantly; boastfully. Proudly he marches on, and void of fear. Addison.
• ADDISON'S DISEASE
  A morbid condition causing a peculiar brownish discoloration of the skin, and thought, at one time, to be due to disease of the suprarenal capsules (two flat triangular bodies covering the upper part of the kidneys), but now known not
• HAUGHTILY
  In a haughty manner; arrogantly.
• MANNERLINESS
  The quality or state of being mannerly; civility; complaisance. Sir M. Hale.
• MANNERED
  1. Having a certain way, esp a. polite way, of carrying and conducting one's self. Give her princely training, that she may be Mannered as she is born. Shak. 2. Affected with mannerism; marked by excess of some characteristic peculiarity. His style
• MANNER
  manual, skillful, handy, fr. LL. manarius, for L. manuarius 1. Mode of action; way of performing or effecting anything; method; style; form; fashion. The nations which thou hast removed, and placed in the cities of Samaria, know not the manner
• MANNERCHOR
  A German men's chorus or singing club.
• MANNERLY
  Showing good manners; civil; respectful; complaisant. What thou thinkest meet, and is most mannerly. Shak.
• PROUDNESS
  The quality of being proud; pride. Set aside all arrogancy and proudness. Latimer.
• UNMANNERLY
  Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv.
• OVERPROUD
  Exceedingly or unduly proud. "Overproud of his victory." Milton.
• TOP-PROUD
  Proud to the highest degree. "This top-proud fellow." Shak.
• OVERMANNER
  In an excessive manner; excessively. Wiclif.
• ILL-MANNERED
  Impolite; rude.
• WINTER-PROUD
  Having too rank or forward a growth for winter. When either corn is winter-proud, or other plants put forth and bud too early. Holland.
• WELL-MANNERED
  Polite; well-bred; complaisant; courteous. Dryden.
• MISPROUD
  Viciously proud. Shak.
• PLACE-PROUD
  Proud of rank or office. Beau. & Fl.