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Proudly

Proudly \Proud"ly\, adv. In a proud manner; with lofty airs or mien; haughtily; arrogantly; boastfully.

Proudly he marches on, and void of fear.
--Addison.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
proudly

late Old English prutlice "arrogantly;" from proud + -ly (2). Meaning "with conscious honor" attested by 1753.

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proudly

adv. In a proud manner.

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proudly

adv. in a proud manner; "he walked proudly into town" [syn: with pride]

Usage examples of "proudly".

Their ghastly antlered heads stood proudly upright, their eyeless sockets scouring the land.

One Mercedes stood out proudly from the lesser breeds, and Barton went to it.

At its head, two officers of the police proudly bore long, flat bamboo sticks for inflicting the bastinado to any unfortunate who incurred their wrath.

However Beryl was too proudly intent upon saving her pride to realize this and Robin, instinctively understanding, let her have her way.

And Yo was running, like the mad, into the safety of her first tongue, where the proudly monolingual John could not catch her, even if he tried.

One tiny curl added to the top of the first curve of the m in her name, had transformed it from a good old English patronymic that any girl might bear proudly, to Cornstock.

His objective was Doyle Pettit, minus his hat, goggles, and coat, standing by the hood of his shiny black automobile and proudly demonstrating to the curious the function of the crank.

He had proudly married an almost portionless girl of a very ancient aristocratic race, the last of the Vaugelades, whose blood was poor and whose mind was narrow.

And at her feet Witherby proudly laid an assortment of ediblesclams and sea-slugs, a wriggling squid, purslane and gnetum seeds and a snail or two.

And at her feet Witherby proudly laid an assortment of edibles--clams and sea-slugs, a wriggling squid, purslane and gnetum seeds and a snail or two.

Somehow the beast kept its footing, plummeting past a Startled Korlat and a laughing Silverfox, then, reaching the flat, slowing its wild charge and trotting up to where Whiskeyjack stood, its head lifted proudly, ears up and forward-facing.

And, as that Theban monster that proposed Her riddle, and him who solved it not devoured, That once found out and solved, for grief and spite Cast herself headlong from the Ismenian steep, So, strook with dread and anguish, fell the Fiend, And to his crew, that sat consulting, brought Joyless triumphals of his hoped success, Ruin, and desperation, and dismay, Who durst so proudly tempt the Son of God.

With Tekoriikii proudly strutting at the fore, the trio made their way into the city streets and left the hill of palaces far behind.

Whilst all the rest should march our way Up rivers from that swampish bay, To higher, cleaner, firmer land Where Cambrians might proudly stand On hills and meads, in fresher air, And build Madoc his kingdom there.

The girls disrobed at once, pausing in different stages to point proudly to their garish underthings and bantering all the while with the gaunt and dissipated old man with the shabby long white hair and slovenly white unbuttoned shirt who sat cackling lasciviously in a musty blue armchair almost in the exact center of the room and bade Nately and his companions welcome with a mirthful and sardonic formality.