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

(en-noun)

The subject of one's own experience of phenomena: perception, emotions, thoughts.

*

*:Thanks to that penny he had just spent so recklessly [on a newspaper] he would pass a happy hour, taken, for once, out of his anxious, despondent, miserable self . It irritated him shrewdly to know that these moments of respite from carking care would not be shared with his poor wife, with careworn, troubled Ellen.

An individual person as the object of his own reflective consciousness (plural selves).

* (1788-1856)

*:The self , the I, is recognized in every act of intelligence as the subject to which that act belongs. It is I that perceive, I that imagine, I that remember, I that attend, I that compare, I that feel, I that will, I that am conscious.

*, chapter=16

, title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=The preposterous altruism too!

*{{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author= Katrina G. Claw

, title= Rapid Evolution in Eggs and Sperm , volume=101, issue=3, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=In plants, the ability to recognize self from nonself plays an important role in fertilization, because self-fertilization will result in less diverse offspring than fertilization with pollen from another individual.}}

(lb) A seedling produced by self-pollination (plural selfs).