Pride vs Prudent - What's the difference?
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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.
* (rfdate) Macaulay
* (rfdate) (William Blake)
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
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
* (rfdate) Bible, Zech. ix. 6
* (rfdate) Goldsmith
(zoology) The small European lamprey species .
Show; ostentation; glory.
* (rfdate) Shakespeare
Highest pitch; elevation reached; loftiness; prime; glory,
* to be in the pride of one's life.
* (rfdate) Shakespeare
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.
(reflexive) To take or experience pride in something, be proud of it.
Sagacious in adapting means to ends; circumspect in action, or in determining any line of conduct; careful, discreet, sensible; -- opposed to rash; directed by prudence or wise forethought; evincing prudence;
* {{quote-book
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* Moses established a grave and prudent law . --Milton.
Practically wise, judicious, shrewd
Frugal; economical; not extravagant;
As a noun pride
is 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.As a verb pride
is (reflexive) to take or experience pride in something, be proud of it.As a proper noun prudent is
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English
(wikipedia pride)Noun
- He took pride in his work.
- He had pride of ownership in his department.
- 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.
- The pride of the peacock is the glory of God.
- Pride goeth before the fall.
- lofty trees yclad with summer's pride
- I will cut off the pride of the Philistines.
- a bold peasantry, their country's pride
- Pride , pomp, and circumstance of glorious war.
- a falcon, towering in her pride of place
Synonyms
* (lamprey species) prid, sandpiper * See alsoDerived terms
* point of pride * pride comes before a fall * pridefulVerb
- I pride myself on being a good judge of character, but pride goes before the fall and I'm not a good judge of my own character so I'm often wrong without knowing it.
References
(Webster 1913)Anagrams
* English collective nounsprudent
English
(Webster 1913)Adjective
(en adjective)citation, passage=He did not hesitate what to do. It would be prudent to continue on to Omaha, for it would be dangerous to return to the train, which the Indians might still be engaged in pillaging.}}
- ''His prudent career moves reliably brought him to the top
- Only prudent expenditure may provide quality within a restrictive budget
