misproud

English

Etymology

From Middle English misproud, equivalent to mis- +‎ proud.

Adjective

misproud (comparative more misproud, superlative most misproud)

1. (archaic) Unduly or unwarrantably proud or vain; wrongly proud; arrogant; haughty. [15th–19th c.]
   • 1499, John Skelton, The Bowge of Courte:

     It is grete scorne to se a mysproude knave / With a clerke that connynge is to prate: / Lete theym go lowse theym, in the devylles date.

   • 1838, Knickerbocker, or, New-York monthly magazine, volume 11, page 124:

     [...] dismount two hundred of our best dragooners, and, under Fight-the-good-fight Egerton, let them file down that gully to our left, and fire constantly on the advance of these misproud malignants.

   • 1904, The Lutheran observer - Volume 72 - Page 441:

     See, in the distance advancing, Richmond's misproud array, Fighting for Henry the traitor.

   • 2002, Algernon Charles Swinburne, L. M. Findlay, Selected Poems:

     Yet was the song acclaimed of these aloud Whose praise had made mute bumbleness misproud, [...]

   • 2004, Henry William Herbert, Cromwell An Historical Novel:

     "[...] He hath, I know not how, wrung forth a noble haunch of venison and store of Bourdeaux wine from some misproud malignant here at Naseby!"

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