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Definition of Priding
1. pride [v] - See also: pride
Lexicographical Neighbors of Priding
Literary usage of Priding
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1823)
"... collections from all quarters selves in its prosperity ; strangers to ling
naturalists have enriched it by place of their abode, and priding them« there ..."
2. Literary News by L. Pylodet, Augusta Harriet (Garrigue) Leypoldt (1893)
"Public Opinion. the Kling-gets, holding themselves aloof from their " poor
relations" and priding themselves on their rank and their adherence to old ..."
3. Literary News by L. Pylodet, Augusta Harriet (Garrigue) Leypoldt (1892)
"... holding themselves aloof from their " poor relations" and priding themselves
on their rank and their adherence to old customs. ..."
4. Expository Notes, with Practical Observations, on the New Testament by William Burkitt (1844)
"... of all anxious cares, of all priding ourselves in, and boasting of, what we
have received, contemning and despising others, a vanity which men of weak ..."
5. Random Shots and Southern Breezes: Containing Critical Remarks on the by Louis Fitzgerald Tasistro (1842)
"Ignorance priding itself on its Deficiencies.— Strange Interpretation of the term
Creole.—A Parisian Reminiscence.—The Countess Bertrand.—Creole Beauty. ..."
6. Sharp-eye; Or, The Scout's Revenge by James Weir (1855)
"The artful witness, priding himself upon his shrewdness, with a well-conned story
at his tongue's end, falls an easy victim to the skilful attorney ..."
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