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ROGET'S THESAURUS OF ENGLISH WORDS AND PHRASES ...

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highness, excellency, grace; lordship, worship; reverence, reverend; esquire, sir,<br />

master, Mr., signor, senor, Mein Herr [G.], mynheer † ; your honor, his honor; serene<br />

highness; handle to one's name.<br />

decoration, laurel, palm, wreath, garland, bays, medal, ribbon, riband, blue ribbon,<br />

cordon, cross, crown, coronet, star, garter; feather, feather in one's cap; epaulet, epaulette,<br />

colors, cockade; livery; order, arms, shield, scutcheon; reward &c 973.<br />

878. Pride -- N. dignity, self-respect, mens sibi conscia recti [Lat.] [Vergil].<br />

pride; haughtiness &c adj.; high notions, hauteur; vainglory, crest; arrogance &c<br />

(assumption) 885.<br />

proud man, highflier † ; fine gentleman, fine lady.<br />

V. be proud &c adj.; put a good face on; look one in the face; stalk abroad, perk oneself<br />

up; think no small beer of oneself; presume, swagger, strut; rear one's head, lift up one's<br />

head, hold up one's head; hold one's head high, look big, take the wall, bear like the Turk<br />

no rival near the throne [Pope], carry with a high hand; ride the high horse, mount on<br />

one's high horse; set one's back up, bridle, toss the head; give oneself airs &c (assume)<br />

885; boast &c 884.<br />

pride oneself on; glory in, take a pride in; pique oneself, plume oneself, hug oneself;<br />

stand upon, be proud of; put a good face on; not hide one's light under a bushel, not put<br />

one's talent in a napkin; not think small beer of oneself &c (vanity) 880.<br />

Adj. dignified; stately; proud, proud-crested; lordly, baronial; lofty-minded; highsouled,<br />

high-minded, high-mettled † , high-handed, high-plumed, high-flown, high-toned.<br />

haughty lofty, high, mighty, swollen, puffed up, flushed, blown; vainglorious; purseproud,<br />

fine; proud as a peacock, proud as Lucifer; bloated with pride.<br />

supercilious, disdainful, bumptious, magisterial, imperious, high and mighty,<br />

overweening, consequential; arrogant &c 885; unblushing &c 880.<br />

stiff, stiff-necked; starch; perked stuck-up; in buckram, strait-laced; prim &c (affected)<br />

855.<br />

on one's dignity, on one's high horses, on one's tight ropes, on one's high ropes; on<br />

stilts; en grand seigneur [Fr.].<br />

Adv. with head erect.<br />

Phr. odi profanum vulgus et arceo [Lat.] [Horace].<br />

a duke's revenues on her back [Henry VI]; disdains the shadow which he treads on at<br />

noon [Coriolanis]; pride in their port, defiance in their eye [Goldsmith].<br />

879. Humility -- N. humility, humbleness; meekness, lowness; lowliness, lowlihood † ;<br />

abasement, self-abasement; submission &c 725; resignation.<br />

condescension; affability &c (courtesy) 894.<br />

modesty &c 881; verecundity † , blush, suffusion, confusion; sense of shame, sense of<br />

disgrace; humiliation, mortification; let down, set down.<br />

V. be humble &c adj.; deign, vouchsafe, condescend; humble oneself, demean oneself;<br />

stoop, stoop to conquer; carry coals; submit &c 725; submit with a good grace &c<br />

(brook) 826; yield the palm.<br />

lower one's tone, lower one's note; sing small, draw in one's horns, sober down; hide<br />

one's face, hide one's diminished head; not dare to show one's face, take shame to oneself,

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