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Definition of Pride of place
1. Noun. The first or highest or most important or most ostentatious place.
Definition of Pride of place
1. Noun. The highest-ranking or first position; position of honor. ¹
2. Noun. Honor; esteem. ¹
3. Noun. Pride concerning a place, as one's home town or residence. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pride Of Place
Literary usage of Pride of place
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The British Quarterly Review by Robert Vaughan, Henry Allon (1869)
"That such homely squabbles took place in the inferior convents, and that there
might be much pride of place among the higher, we can readily allow ..."
2. The Great Illusion: A Study of the Relation of Military Power in Nations to by Norman Angell (1910)
"... WAR "You cannot leave human nature out of the account": vanity, pride of place,
pugnacity, the inherent hostility of nations —Nations too good to fight; ..."
3. English Prose and Verse from Beowulf to Stevenson by Henry Spackman Pancoast (1915)
"... high in pride of place? As sheaf from field, and left no trace. They from this
earth have slipped away They are as though they never were, ..."
4. Self-formation; Or, The History of an Individual Mind: Intended as a Guide by Capel Lofft (1846)
"... and reads some portions of the Gospel, and afterwards exalts himself into the
pulpit, that he may preach his own doctrine from his own pride of place, ..."
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