purse-pride

Of course the pessimist sees purse-pride, pompous and outrageous arrogance, a cringing of the pregnant hinges of the knee, false standards, and a thousand faults in this admission.

Manners and Social Usages Mrs. John M. E. W. Sherwood

Here in the old days two lovers held their tryst: a sturdy and honest young farmer of the neighborhood and the daughter of a man whose wealth puffed him with purse-pride.

Myths and Legends of Our Own Land — Volume 04 : Tales of Puritan Land 1879

He has a good word for the virtues, he patronizes the Christian graces, he pats humble merit on the head; he has even explosions of indignation against the insolence and pride of birth, and purse-pride.

My Literary Passions William Dean Howells 1878

He has a good word for the virtues, he patronizes the Christian graces, he pats humble merit on the head; he has even explosions of indignation against the insolence and pride of birth, and purse-pride.

Literature and Life (Complete) William Dean Howells 1878

Her purse-pride was obvious, but as inoffensive as purse-pride can be.

The Secret of a Happy Home (1896) Marion Harland 1876

Through all the talk of these wretched entities, be it observed that money, money runs as a species of key-note; the men may be coarse and servile, but a shrewd eye can detect every sign of purse-pride.

Side Lights James Runciman 1871

He believed that he was perfectly free from what he himself would have called the dirt and littleness of purse-pride -- or acre-pride, and would on some occasions assert that he really thought nothing of himself because he was Newton of Newton.

Ralph the Heir Anthony Trollope 1848

Atheism, and Unbelief in any thing save in brute Force and Sensualism; pride of birth, pride of office, any known kind of pride being a degree better than purse-pride.

The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838

Her father had risen into the possession of some unexpected property when it was too late to bestow upon her a suitable education, and the consequence was that, in addition to natural vanity, on the score of beauty, she was a good deal troubled with purse-pride, which, with a foolish susceptibility of flattery, was a leading feature in her disposition.

The Emigrants Of Ahadarra The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two William Carleton 1831

Murray was a good deal touched with purse-pride -- the most offensive and contemptible description of pride in the world -- and would never have suffered an intimacy, were it not for the reason I have alleged.

Phelim Otoole's Courtship and Other Stories Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three William Carleton 1831