proudhearted

adj — 2 senses

proudhearted

adj

Etymology From Middle English proude-herted, prowd-herted, equivalent to proud + hearted.

1

Very proud

  • 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.”2014, John R. Van Atta, Securing the West: Politics, Public Lands, and the Fate of the Old Republic 1785-1850, →ISBN, page 221:
2

Arrogant

  • I am afraid I have been proudhearted and arrogant.2005, Sheila Carmel, Hana Wirth-Nesher, The Sheila Carmel lectures, 1994-2004, page 180:
Derived terms
proudheartedly, proudheartedness

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