English

Alternative forms

• orgueilous

Adjective

orgulous ‎(comparative more orgulous, superlative most orgulous)

1. Proud; haughty; disdainful.
   • 1485, Thomas Malory, Le Morte D'Arthur, Macmillan and Co. (1891), page 52 (Book II, Chapter IV):

     At that time there was a knight, the which was the king's son of Ireland, and his name was Lanceor, the which was an orgulous knight, and counted himself one of the best of the court; and he had great despite at Balin for the achieving of the sword, that any should be accounted more hardy, or of more prowess.

   • 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses, Episode 14:

     Then spoke young Stephen orgulous of mother Church that would cast him out of her bosom.

   • 1966, Eric Walter White, Stravinsky the Composer and his Works, University of California Press (1966), page 5:

     Her nephew describes her as 'an orgulous and despotic woman', and it is clear that he noticed and resented her numerous unkindnesses.

   • 1975, Georgette Heyer, My Lord John, Arrow Books (2011), ISBN 0099476428, pages 14-15:

     They knew that my lord of Arundel had grown so orgulous that he had lately dared to marry the Earl of March's sister, without license.

2. Ostentatious; showy.
3. Swollen; augmented; excessive.
4. Threatening; dangerous.

Derived terms

• orgulously

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