Definitions
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- noun obsolete Overweening pride; arrogance; presumption; insolence.
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- noun obsolete Overweening pride;
arrogance .
Etymologies
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From Old French surcuiderie.
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Examples
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Gifts of atonement for "surquedry," like that of Agamemnon, are given and received in the French epics, for example, in the [blank space].
Homer and His Age Andrew Lang 1878
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What so reasonable as that we should be punished for our pride and contumacy, by a judgment specially calculated to abate and bend that spirit of surquedry?
The Betrothed Walter Scott 1801
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