proud-hearted

See also: proudhearted

English

Etymology

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

Adjective

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, 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.