Roget's Thesaurus eBook

Peter Roget
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 925 pages of information about Roget's Thesaurus.

Roget's Thesaurus eBook

Peter Roget
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 925 pages of information about Roget's Thesaurus.

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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;

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