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Definition of Overproud
1. Adjective. Excessively proud.
Definition of Overproud
1. a. Exceedingly or unduly proud.
Definition of Overproud
1. Adjective. Excessively proud. ¹
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Definition of Overproud
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overproud
Literary usage of Overproud
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Odyssey of Homer by Homer, William Morris (1887)
"... 270 And there do thou mix and mingle with the Wooers overproud; And me to the
town thereafter shall the swineherd bring on the road, Most like to a ..."
2. The Iliad of Homer by Homer, John Graham Cordery (1871)
"Call clear to whom thou goest, awake them loud, Naming each hero by ancestral
name, Giving to each his glory ; nor thyself Be overproud, but labour ..."
3. Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden (1884)
"They say he wrought you ill, and was cruel when he should have been gentle with
you, and was overproud of his office. Nay, I marked that your father had ..."
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