orgulous

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orgulous or orgillous - adj., (obs.) proud, haughty.


Apparently kept in dictionaries only because Shakespeare used it. From Middle French, from Old French orgoil, pride, from Germanic roots, equivalent to French orgueil and Old English orgol.

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