proudheartedとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Middle English proude-herted, prowd-herted, equivalent to proud +‎ hearted.

形容詞

proudhearted (comparative more proudhearted, superlative most proudhearted)

1. Very proud
   • 2014, John R. Van Atta, Securing the West: Politics, Public Lands, and the Fate of the Old Republic 1785-1850, ISBN 1421412756, page 221:

     This “vicious, corrupt, and debased swarm of outcasts,” Merrick called them, would make an “honest and proudhearted” American freeman “rather die in poverty and want, than dwell among such people.”

2. Arrogant
   • 2005, Sheila Carmel & ‎Hana Wirth-Nesher, The Sheila Carmel lectures, 1994-2004, page 180:

     I am afraid I have been proudhearted and arrogant.

形容詞

proud-hearted (comparative more proud-hearted, superlative most proud-hearted)

1. Alternative form of proudhearted
   • 1852, Elizabeth Caroline Grey, Mary Seaham, page 70:

     ...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, ISBN 0898754577, page 321:

     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.