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pride 1. a group (of lions) 2. the mettle of a horse; courage; spirit 3. Archaic sexual desire, esp in a female animal Pride Thomas. died 1658, English soldier on the Parliamentary side during the Civil War. He expelled members of the Long Parliament hostile to the army (Pride's Purge, 1648) and signed Charles I's death warrant How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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34) Yet, Hays saw this as one of his most significant failings and a sign of his own pridefulness. There is an element of pridefulness at work that doesn't acknowledge or permit these things to come into play," says Bruce Buchanan, a political science professor at the University of Texas in Austin. Because once the smarting stops, the traits of persistence and pridefulness will sink in like a salve. |
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