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proud

I can't see how more than one sense is justified, here. Were they split up just to add the extra "quotations?" --Connel MacKenzie 19:15, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

Well, there is certainly another one besides the obvious one...e.g., proud flesh, which is swollen tissue around a healing sore. —Stephen 17:07, 16 June 2007 (UTC)

There is also both a positive and a negative sense pertainig to pride. Saying "We're proud of what you've done," carries a different sense from "The man was too proud to speak to me." The former is a sense of satisfaction and vicarious pleasure, whereas the latter carries a sense of haughtiness and disdain. Along with the sense Stephen has noted above, I'd say it looks like we have three definitions. --EncycloPetey 22:19, 17 June 2007 (UTC)

And what about "He's too proud to accept help when he needs it"? I don't think that really falls into either category. —Ruakh_TALK 01:51, 19 June 2007 (UTC)

I've reworked it fairly extensively. Also RFV-d one sense. Widsith 17:47, 18 July 2007 (UTC)

— This unsigned comment was added by Msh210 (talk • contribs) at 20:54, 8 January 2009‎.

South

South of where? — This unsigned comment was added by 80.41.230.203 (talk) at 00:58, 22 March 2010‎.

First definition

"Having too high an opinion of oneself; arrogant, supercilious."

Do we have any evidence to back up this usage? I don't concur that the quote supports it. In "The lad was deathly proud!" it is the adjective deathly which modifies proud into "too proud". Pride itself merely means a high opinion. Not necessarily arrogance/superciliousness (too high). Unless there's some other usage of pride on its own without an adjective to alter the meaning, I think this meaning should be tagged to call its meaning into question. For example, "too tall" is negative, with setbacks, like being too tall to fit through a doorway, the usage "too tall" or "unhealthily heavy" etc do not serve to redefine an adjective's meaning because the phrase includes an additional adjective modifier in itself. Y12J (talk) 19:15, 21 March 2012 (UTC)

Other dictionaries have both a neutral and a pejorative sense of the meaning I'd summarize as "high self-esteem". DCDuring TALK 22:09, 12 April 2012 (UTC)

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RFV-sense "Having too high an opinion of oneself; arrogant, supercilious." Tagged in this edit and discussed on the talk page, but not listed here. - -sche (discuss) 21:27, 12 April 2012 (UTC)

Other dictionaries have both a neutral and a pejorative sense of the meaning I'd summarize as "high self-esteem". DCDuring TALK 22:09, 12 April 2012 (UTC)

I've added a quote from the King James Bible. "proud" as a pejorative seems to be the default in that Bible. Smurrayinchester (talk) 08:07, 13 April 2012 (UTC)

RFV-passed. - -sche (discuss) 21:23, 7 June 2012 (UTC)

proud of vs. proud for

what is the difference? Jackzhp (talk) 11:46, 18 September 2012 (UTC)

Need to see an example sentence. I don’t think that "proud for" is anything. That is, the word "for" probably does not belong to "proud", but to whatever word follows "for". —Stephen ^(Talk) 11:55, 18 September 2012 (UTC)

(Midwestern U.S., Southern U.S.)

(Midwestern U.S., Southern U.S.) feeling pleased, glad, or delighted --Backinstadiums (talk) 10:11, 2 October 2020 (UTC)