What is "pridefulness"

Usage examples of "pridefulness".

Erect, wiry, with Albert Ein­stein white hair and Bugs Bunny front teeth, Joseph came through the door impelled by a form of defensive pridefulness to get his retaliation in first.

For some time she had measured the extent of her pridefulness, but she could not find any way to remedy it because the more she thought of solutions the less rational they seemed to her.

These were all older than the new arrivals, and, over and above the basic pridefulness of their breed, bore an air of distinction.