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PROUD OF
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Feeling pleasurable satisfaction over something by which you measures your self-worth
Example:
proud of their child
Synonyms:
pleased; proud of
Classified under:
Similar:
proud (feeling self-respect or pleasure in something by which you measure your self-worth; or being a reason for pride)
Context examples:
"There," said he; "now you have a heart that any man might be proud of. I'm sorry I had to put a patch on your breast, but it really couldn't be helped."
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
He was very much alive, very happy, and very proud of himself.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
Who is doubtless proud of you.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Also, I was very proud of that particular piece of work. I had named it "The Last Turn," and I believed it to be one of the best things I had ever done.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
You know I was proud of my strength: but what is it now, when I must give it over to foreign guidance, as a child does its weakness?
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
We are very proud of the children, are not we, papa?
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
He was proud of his conquest, proud of tricking Edward, and very proud of marrying privately without his mother's consent.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
But the Houyhnhnms, who live under the government of reason, are no more proud of the good qualities they possess, than I should be for not wanting a leg or an arm; which no man in his wits would boast of, although he must be miserable without them.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
She said the highest things in your praise that could possibly be; and the praise of such a girl as Miss Thorpe even you, Catherine, taking her hand with affection, may be proud of.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
She was delighted with each, but Mary was her dearest object; and having never been able to glory in beauty of her own, she thoroughly enjoyed the power of being proud of her sister's.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
