proudness Now rare.
(ˈpraʊdnɪs)
[f. proud a. + -ness.]
The quality of being proud; pride.
1. Lofty self-esteem, arrogance, haughtiness.
| 1500–20 Dunbar Poems ix. 116, I synnit..In he exaltit arrogance and folye, Prowdnes, derisioun, scorne and vilipentioun. 1552 Latimer Serm. Gospels iv. 173 He fell..in suche a hatred and proudenes agaynst God. 1588 A. King tr. Canisius' Catech. K j, Thair proudnes is intolerable. 1860 Pusey Min. Proph. 465 Isaiah accumulates words, to express the haughtiness of Moab..as if we were to say ‘pride, prideful, proudness, pridefulness’. 1902 E. H. Cooper 20th Century Child xii. (1905) 231 They [crabs] should be kept in a bucket for a week, said a small child firmly, ‘to calm down their proudness’. |
2. Proud show, splendour, magnificence.
| 1606 Warner Alb. Eng. xvi. ci. 401 Nature wrongd by Arte, of Prowdnes more than need. |