Noun

The quality or state of being proud; inordinate self-esteem; an unreasonable conceit of one's own superiority in talents, beauty, wealth, rank etc., which manifests itself in lofty airs, distance, reserve and often contempt of others.

A sense of one's own worth, and abhorrence of what is beneath or unworthy of one; lofty self-respect; noble self-esteem; elevation of character; dignified bearing; proud delight; -- in a good sense.

He took pride in his work.

He had pride of ownership in his department.

* (rfdate) Macaulay

A people which takes no pride' in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with ' pride by remote descendants.

* (rfdate) (William Blake)

The pride of the peacock is the glory of God.

Proud or disdainful behavior or treatment; insolence or arrogance of demeanor; haughty bearing and conduct; insolent exultation; disdain; hubris.

* (rfdate) G. K. Chesterton, Introduction to Aesop's Fables

Pride goeth before the fall.

That of which one is proud; that which excites boasting or self-gratulation; the occasion or ground of self-esteem, or of arrogant and presumptuous confidence, as beauty, ornament, noble character, children etc.

* (rfdate) Spenser

lofty trees yclad with summer's pride

* (rfdate) Bible, Zech. ix. 6

I will cut off the pride of the Philistines.

* (rfdate) Goldsmith

a bold peasantry, their country's pride

(zoology) The small European lamprey species .

Show; ostentation; glory.

* (rfdate) Shakespeare

Pride , pomp, and circumstance of glorious war.

Highest pitch; elevation reached; loftiness; prime; glory,

* to be in the pride of one's life.

* (rfdate) Shakespeare

a falcon, towering in her pride of place

Consciousness of power; fullness of animal spirits; mettle; wantonness.

Lust; sexual desire; especially, excitement of sexual appetite in a female beast.

(zoology) A company of lions.

Noun

(glories)

Great beauty or splendour, that is so overwhelming it is considered powerful.

* , chapter=5

, title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=He was thinking; but the glory of the song, the swell from the great organ, the clustered lights, […], the height and vastness of this noble fane, its antiquity and its strength—all these things seemed to have their part as causes of the thrilling emotion that accompanied his thoughts.}}

*{{quote-magazine, date=2014-06-14, volume=411, issue=8891, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= It's a gas , passage=One of the hidden glories of Victorian engineering is proper drains. Isolating a city’s effluent and shipping it away in underground sewers has probably saved more lives than any medical procedure except vaccination.}}

Honour, admiration, or distinction, accorded by common consent to a person or thing; high reputation; renown.

* (Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)

Spread his glory through all countries wide.

That quality in a person or thing which secures general praise or honour.

* Sir (Philip Sidney) (1554-1586)

Think it no glory to swell in tyranny.

* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

Jewels lose their glory if neglected.

* , chapter=4

, title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=Then he commenced to talk, really talk. and inside of two flaps of a herring's fin he had me mesmerized, like Eben Holt's boy at the town hall show. He talked about the ills of humanity, and the glories of health and Nature and service and land knows what all.}}

Worship or praise.

* Bible, (w) ii. 14

Glory to God in the highest.

Optical phenomenon caused by water droplets.

Victory; success.

* {{quote-news, year=2012, date=May 13, author=Alistair Magowan, title=Sunderland 0-1 Man Utd

, work=BBC Sport citation , passage=But, with United fans in celebratory mood as it appeared their team might snatch glory , they faced an anxious wait as City equalised in stoppage time.}}

An emanation of light supposed to proceed from beings of peculiar sanctity. It is represented in art by rays of gold, or the like, proceeding from the head or body, or by a disk, or a mere line.

(label) Pride; boastfulness; arrogance.

* (George Chapman) (1559-1634)

in glory of thy fortunes