English

Alternative forms

• proud-hearted

Adjective

proudhearted ‎(comparative more proudhearted, superlative most proudhearted)

1. Very proud
   • 2014, John R. Van Atta, Securing the West: Politics, Public Lands, and the Fate of the Old Republic 1785-1850, ISBN 1421412756, page 221:

     This “vicious, corrupt, and debased swarm of outcasts,” Merrick called them, would make an “honest and proudhearted” American freeman “rather die in poverty and want, than dwell among such people.”

2. Arrogant
   • 2005, Sheila Carmel & ‎Hana Wirth-Nesher, The Sheila Carmel lectures, 1994-2004, page 180:

     I am afraid I have been proudhearted and arrogant.