• Proud-hearted

    Origin

    proud + hearted

    Full definition of proud-hearted

    Adjective

    proud-hearted

      • 1852 , Elizabeth Caroline Grey , Mary Seaham , ...there seems to me something, if I may so speak, almost God-like in the pure and devoted love of a strong proud-hearted man towards his mother;
      • 2001 , Pierre Munroe Irving , The Life and Letters of Washington Irving , But a few days previously I had beheld this proud-hearted Princess walking the Prado with her family, with sullen and almost disdainful air, scarce noticing the salutations of the well-dressed throngs which bowed, with uncovered head, as she passed.
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