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Definition of Prided
1. pride [v] - See also: pride
Lexicographical Neighbors of Prided
Literary usage of Prided
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Camera (1907)
"If you, like me, once prided yourself on your ability to guess the correct exposure
for bromide work, your pride has tumbled so far you can no longer see it ..."
2. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: Giving the Derivation, Source, Or Origin of by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1898)
"The Romans prided themselves on their tables made of citron wood from Mau-
rita'nia, inlaid with ivory, and sold at a most extravagant price—some equal to a ..."
3. The Beginnings of Modern Europe (1250-1450) by Ephraim Emerton (1917)
"All these scholars were and prided themselves on being essentially self-taught men.
In this fact doubtless we find the explana- The Hew t'on °^ ^e v'Sor ..."
4. The History of Sandford and Merton by Thomas Day (1826)
"... fear of losing a repast; and many of our generals prided themselves more on
the arrangement of their tables, than the martial evolution of their troops. ..."
5. William Winston Seaton of the "National Intelligencer".: A Biographical Sketch by Josephine Seaton (1871)
"... that the future great Captain owed his love of " polite letters." Scott prided
himself as greatly on the purity of his French accent, the felicity of ..."
6. Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians by Theodore Baker (1919)
"In 1840 P., who prided himself on rapid work, wrote his dramatic masterpiece,
Saffo, in 28 days; its reception at Naples on Nov. 29 was enthusiastic Forty ..."
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