misproud
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English misproud, equivalent to mis- + proud.
Adjective edit
misproud (comparative more misproud, superlative most misproud)
- (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!"