Definition/Summary:
Pride
- Feeling or deep pleasure or satisfaction derived from one’s own achievements
Pride of Lions
- Lions in family or social group
Expanded info:
Negative form of pride
- The original and most serious of the seven deadly sins
- The perversion of the faculties that make humans more like God—dignity and holiness
- It is also thought to be the source all other sins
- Dangerously corrupt selfishness, the putting of one’s own desires, urges, wants, and whims before the welfare of people.
Add/Misc:
“Pride goeth before the fall”
“What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.”