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Meanings of overweening pride in English

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Usage of overweening pride in English
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They had lost the radiant light of God in heaven through overweening pride.
Codex Junius 11
2
Their overweening pride and love blinds them to what is their true duty.
Minnesota; Its Character and Climate / Likewise Sketches of Othe...
3
The Greeks and their gods didn't much care for overweening pride.
Turn left at the trojan horse: a would-be hero's american odysse...
4
Nothing like overweening pride to make a man act a fool.
When darkness comes
5
Of overweening pride ye shall hear now, and grim vengeance.
The Fall of the Nibelungs
6
Zeus punishes overweening pride, and his correcting hand is heavy.
Authors of Greece
7
Some pretended that it was due to overweening pride; others spoke of her heavenly modesty.
The Phantom of the Opera
8
By right I should be spared thy overweening pride.
The Nibelungenlied
9
Then a feeling of overweening pride seized upon him.
Abbe Mouret's Transgression
10
Was not his overweening pride leading him toward insanity?
The Master of the World
11
I cannot brook in honor your overweening pride.
The Nibelungenlied
12
Nikon fell a victim to Court intrigues and his own overweening pride, and was formally deposed.
Russia
13
I'll pay Hagen well for his overweening pride.
The Nibelungenlied
14
An overweening pride in his own powers.
Godey's Lady's Book, Vol. 42, January, 1851
15
Brunhild, the fair, sate in overweening pride.
The Nibelungenlied
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And her overweening pride had supported it.
The Fur Bringers: A Story of the Canadian Northwest
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