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Quotation dates: 1456-1699
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Pride-, Prydeful(l, adj. Also: prid-, pryd-, pryid-, prede-. [Late ME (once) pridefulle (a 1450), thereafter appar. chiefly Sc. till the 18th c.] Full of pride; proud, overweening, arrogant.
a. Of persons.(1) c1460 Alex. (Taym.) (ed.) 753.
Men seis oft hie pridfull men cum law 1490 Irland Mir. I 89/11.
This pridfull, invyus and wikit innemy of Hell c1500-c1512 Dunb. xviii 23 (M).
Be I … Honestlie cled … Ane prydfull man than call thai me 1528 Lynd. Dreme 1097.
Tak tent, how prydful Tarquyne tynt his croun 1533 Boece 67 b.
Pridefull [L. superbissimum] 1533 Ib. 558 b. a1538 Abell 9* b.
Pridfull Anthiok wes mekit be God 1535 Stewart 6088. c1552 Lynd. Mon. 1949.
Be creuell, prydefull, couytous kyngis 1551 Hamilton Catechism 63.
Thai … that ar … prydful … or … dispysis thair nychtbour, as did the pridful Pharisiane 1560 Rolland Seven Sages 4006.
A proude princes, ane prydefull patterar 1558-66 Knox I 155.
The pridefull and scornefull people that stood by, mocked him a1578 Pitsc. I 36/3. 1622-6 Bisset I 26/37. 1638 J. Row Sermon 2.
The prydful prelatsabsol. c1460 Wisdom of Solomon 332.
Mar is [prayer] lowabile to God with a mek man na a pridfull(2) 1456 Hay II 33/6.
Thare sulde na knycht be hautayn, na feir, na prydefull, na presumptuous a1500 Henr. Fab. 537 (Ch.).
Prydefull he wes, and ioyit of his sin 1490 Irland Mir. MS fol. 346.
Thai that are of the new riche are pridfull and iniurius c1490 Porteous Noblenes 179/14 (Asl.).
Prydefull 1533 Gau 15/1.
Thay quhilk ar pridful and he aganis thair for elders 1533 Boece 146.
Maist haltane & pridefull [L. superbissimis] 1549 Complaynte of Scotland 152/16.
Quhou ar ȝe becum predeful & takkis gloir in this varld, considerand that [etc.] c1552 Lynd. Mon. 1664.
Prydefull 1562-3 Winȝet II 31/33. a1570-86 Maitland Maitland Folio MS xxv 15.
Prydfull [Maitl. Q. pryidfull] not be, vse not to lie c1650 Spalding I 231.
Feiring he wes prydfull and seditious c1650 Ib. II 394.(3) 1533 Bell. Livy I 219/26.
Thir Ethruschis, quhilkis war richt pridefull & reiosing of this victorie [L. victoria elatus] 1533 Gau 12/23.
Thay quhilk ar pridful of thair wisdome or science 1535 Stewart 33834.
Prydefull(4) 1551 Hamilton Catechism 63.
Thai … that ar in thair wordis prydful, helie, vaine glorious 1560 Rolland Seven Sages 5884, 5885.
Thair was ane michtie king Prydefull in hart, and proud abone all thing, He was sa heich and prydefull in his thocht
b. transf.c1475 Acts of Schir William Wallace iii 137.
In prydefull ire c1490 Irland Asl. MS 69/14.
Desyrand be my prydfull and orgole hert vengeance & pvnicoun 1531 Bell. Boece I 74.
The avarice, riches, chevalry and pridfull [L. superbe] empire of Romanis 1533 Id. Livy II 132/11.
The batell was movit … for the pridefull [L. superbum] ansuere that the senate of Veos gaif 1533 Ib. I 294/12. 1533 Boece 165. c1536 Lynd. Compl. Bagsche 144.
Bot quhen the kingis excellence Did knaw … my prydefull presumptioun c1550 Rolland Court of Venus i 832.
That lufe was … Irefull, pridfull, and rigorous c1552 Lynd. Mon. 1762. 1562-3 Winȝet I 50/34.
I wes almaist astoneist at thair proud præsumption … in sa prydeful and arrogant procedingis 1562-3 Ib. 21/9. 1567 Gude and Godlie Ballatis 74.
The prydefull luking of my eine 1567 Satirical Poems vi 38.
God … all thair mycht and prydfull pomp ouerthrew a1568 Bannatyne MS 89 b/10.
To haif sa prydfull ane consate c1568 Lauder Minor P. i 321. a1578 Pitsc. I 101/3. 1600-1610 Melvill 135.
With a prydfull disdean and contempt of the ministerie 1600-1610 Ib. 263. 1581-1623 James VI Poems I 170/1094.
Like a mightie bull Whose pridefull horne doth egg 16.. Maidment Balfour Ballads 17.
Prideful
c. quasi-adv.a1538 Abell 23 b.
Pridfull he brak trewis bot lestit schort quhill