Definition of "proud flesh" []

• The swollen flesh that surrounds a healing wound, caused by excessive granulation. (noun)

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• "Her skin was whole and unbruised, the proud flesh subsided; she moved with her customary easy grace and had enough lung expansion to laugh."
• "The powdered root is good to cleanse foul and ill-conditioned ulcers it destroys the proud flesh without injuring the sound; it also removes the morbid matter, and promotes the exfoliation of carious or rotten bones."
• "The children and cobblers and shop-keepers buying with the yellow gold the "thousand years old names!" buying with their yellow gold the proud flesh and blood of their lords to breed with them and theirs!"