Definition of "priding" []

• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of pride. (verb)

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• "He invariably spoke in English, priding himself, with reason, not only upon his extraordinary knowledge of the language but his acquaintance with the rich classics of that tongue."
• "We shall despise our childish folly, in priding ourselves in such things when we are grown up to men in Christ."
• "VA was always a very reliable purple state as I grew up and started voting there, kind of priding itself on a certain amount of progressivism, not "backwards" like those deep Southern states."