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Definition of Proudest
1. proud [adj] - See also: proud
Lexicographical Neighbors of Proudest
Literary usage of Proudest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1887)
"... and never unconscious of his rank — so evidently so as to elicit the remark
from one ot his order, that " Lord Shaftesbury was the proudest man he knew ..."
2. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1858)
"... a retired student and hard-working parish priest, he has made his name memorable
in English history, and his genius one of its proudest boasts. decided ..."
3. The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by Isaac Smith Homans, William Buck Dana (1841)
"... tranquillity are the proudest comment on its adaptation to their necessities
and relations. Its peace-producing influences are radiating over the world, ..."
4. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1859)
"The proudest distinction which can adorn a family of subjects, is the closo
connexion of their fortunes with the history of their country. It may be added, ..."
5. Dictionary of Obsolete and Provincial English: Containing Words from the by Thomas Wright (1904)
"I am a gentleman, With as much sense of honour as the proudest Don that doth ride
ou's foot-cloth, and Gold to the numerous minutes of his age. ..."
6. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science by Kansas Academy of Science (1881)
"the commonwealth of Kansas the proudest position in the sisterhood of the Union.
I am happy in believing that there is no subject that concerns the safety ..."
7. Diary and correspondence of samuel pepys f.r.s.. by Samuel Pepys (1854)
"debt by spending above 60000/. per annum, when he hath not 40000/.: that the
Duchess is not only the proudest woman in the world, ..."
8. The Doctor, &c by Robert Southey (1836)
"Go to the dull churchyard, and see Those hillocks of mortality, Where proudest
man is only found By a small hillock on the ground. Tixall Poetry. ..."
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