Misproud

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Unduly or unwarrantably proud or vain; wrongly proud; arrogant; haughty. archaic

    "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."

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"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."

Etymology

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

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