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#877. Title. —
N. title, honor; knighthood &c. (nobility) 875.
highness, excellency,
grace; lordship, worship; reverence, reverend;
esquire, sir, master, Mr., signor, senor, Mein Herr[Ger],
mynheer[obs3]; your honor, his honor; serene highness;
handle to one’s name.
decoration, laurel,
palm, wreath, garland, bays, medal, ribbon,
riband, blue ribbon, cordon, cross, crown, coronet,
star, garter; feather, feather in one,s cap; epaulet,
epaulette, colors, cockade; livery; order, arms, shield,
scutcheon; reward &c. 973.
#878. Pride. —
N. dignity, self-respect, mens sibi conscia recti
[Lat][Vergil].
pride; haughtiness &c.
adj.; high notions, hauteur; vainglory, crest;
arrogance &c. (assumption) 885.
proud man, highflier[obs3];
fine gentleman, fine lady.
V. be proud &c. adj.;
put a good face on; look one in the face; stalk
abroad, perk oneself up; think no small beer of oneself;
presume, swagger, strut; rear one’s head, lift
up one’s head, hold up one’s head; hold
one’s head high, look big, take the wall, “bear
like the Turk no rival near the throne” [Pope],
carry with a high hand; ride the high horse, mount
on one’s high horse; set one’s back up,
bridle, toss the head; give oneself airs &c. (assume)
885; boast &c. 884.
pride oneself on; glory
in, take a pride in; pique oneself, plume
oneself, hug oneself; stand upon, be proud of; put
a good face on; not hide one’s light under a
bushel, not put one’s talent in a napkin; not
think small beer of oneself &c. (vanity) 880.
Adj. dignified; stately;
proud, proud-crested; lordly, baronial;
lofty-minded; highsouled, high-minded, high-mettled[obs3],
high-handed, high-plumed, high-flown, high-toned.
haughty lofty, high,
mighty, swollen, puffed up, flushed, blown;
vainglorious; purse-proud, fine; proud as a peacock,
proud as Lucifer; bloated with pride.
supercilious, disdainful,
bumptious, magisterial, imperious, high and
mighty, overweening, consequential; arrogant &c.
885; unblushing &c. 880.
stiff, stiff-necked;
starch; perked stuck-up; in buckram, strait-
laced; prim &c. (affected) 855.
on one’s dignity,
on one’s high horses,on one’s tight ropes,
on one’s
high ropes; on stilts; en grand seigneur [Fr].
Adv. with head erect.
Phr. odi profanum vulgus
et arceo [Lat][Horace].
“a duke’s
revenues on her back” [Henry VI]; “disdains
the shadow
which he treads on at noon” [Coriolanis]; “pride
in their port, defiance in their eye” [Goldsmith].
#879. Humility.
— N. humility, humbleness; meekness, lowness;
lowliness, lowlihood[obs3]; abasement, self-abasement;
submission &c. 725; resignation.
condescension; affability
&c. (courtesy) 894.
modesty &c. 881; verecundity|,
blush, suffusion, confusion; sense of
shame,sense of disgrace; humiliation, mortification;


