- overweening pride, arrogance, presumptuousness. It is surquidy, gif a capitane, with L. [50] men of armes, wald assailye thre hundreth als gude; that war fule hardynes, and na vertu morale (Gilbert Hay The Buke of the Law of Arms 1456).
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- overweening pride, arrogance, presumptuousness. It is surquidy, gif a capitane, with L. [50] men of armes, wald assailye thre hundreth als gude; that war fule hardynes, and na vertu morale (Gilbert Hay The Buke of the Law of Arms 1456). |
| ← Superciliosity | Pride in outward appearance → |