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First published 1968 (SND Vol. VII). Includes material from the 1976 supplement.
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PRIDE, n.¹, v. Also preid. Sc. form and usages:

I. n. 1. As in Eng. Combs. (1) pridefu, -fow, preidfih, adj., full of pride, in a good or more freq. bad sense; having a proper pride, self-respecting, fastidious; haughty, saucy, arrogant, snobbish, vain (Sc. 1808 Jam.; Cai. 1903 E.D.D.). Gen.(exc. I.)Sc., obsol. Hence pridefulness, n., vanity, self-esteem; pridefully, adv., in an arrogant, ostentatious way (Sc. 1825 Jam.); ¶(2) pride-prankit, puffed up with pride, self-assured, arrogant; (3) pride-o'-may, a flower, phs. one of the primula family (Slk. 1966).(1) Ayr. 1786 Burns Twa Dogs 144:
Some rascal's pridefu' greed to quench.Edb. 1791 J. Learmont Poems 2:
They gang by ye wi' sic a huff, An' pridefu' caper, snirt an' snuff.Sc. 1820 Scott Monastery viii.:
A white kirtle the wench wears . . . and a blue hood, that might weel be spared for pridefulness.wm.Sc. 1827 T. Hamilton Cyril Thornton vi.:
He's as braw and canty a callant as ever I clappit een on, and no pridefu' aboot his meat.Sc. 1841 Tait's Mag. VIII. 110:
The father prideful as the scene reveals? And the fond mother smiling as she feels?Sc. 1843 Carlyle Hist. Sk. (1898) 340:
Why should not such a man be prideful, himself equal to the highest men?Kcb. 1899 Crockett Anna Mark viii.:
Philip Stansfield stood forward and apart with a certain pridefulness.wm.Sc. 1904 H. Foulis Para Handy (1931) 535:
I'll no' ask ye to dae onything o' the kind, ye pridefu' auld thing ye.Ags. 1918 V. Jacob More Songs 32:
I'll . . . cast my he'rt across the Spey An' tak' some pridefu' Hieland loon.Rxb. 1925 E. C. Smith Mang Howes 19:
A'm seek-staaed o the . . . preidfih bluistereen that a body offen hes ti thole.(2) Abd. 1879 G. MacDonald Sir Gibbie xxvii.:
A wheen pride-prankit beuk-fowk 'at didna believe there was ony angels or speerits o' ony kin'.(3) s.Sc. 1845 E. Aitchison Forest Day Tour 83:
Pinks, sweet-willies, prides-o'-may.

II. v. 1. intr. To take pride (in), feel proud (of), be or become proud. Obs. in Eng. in 17th c.Ayr. 1787 Burns To Unco Guid iii.:
That purity ye pride in.Sc. 1802 H. Martin Helen of Glenross IV. 50:
I pride to feel . . .Rnf. 1807 R. Tannahill Poems (1900) 136:
In Scots antiquities he pridit.

2. tr. To make proud, fill with pride, gen. in pass. Rare or obs. in Eng.Ayr. 1787 Burns Holy Fair xi.:
Nae wonder that it pride him!Dmf. 1820 J. Johnstone Poems 114:
I, mither-like, was prided o' my ain.