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outrival, outvie[obs3], outjump; emulate, eclipse; throw into the shade, cast int o the shade; overshadow.

live, flourish, glitter, flaunt, gain honor, acquire ho nor &c. n.; play first fiddle &c. (be of importance) 642, bear the palm, bear th e bell; lead the way; take precedence, take the wall of; gain laurels, win laure ls, gain spurs, gain golden opinions &c. (approbation) 931; take one's degree, p ass one's examination. make a noise, make some noise, make a noise in the world; leave one's mark, exalt one's horn, blow one's horn, star it, have a run, be ru n after; come into vogue, come to the front; raise one's head. enthrone, signali ze, immortalize, deify, exalt to the skies; hand one's name down to posterity. c onsecrate; dedicate to, devote to; enshrine, inscribe, blazon, lionize, blow the trumpet, crown with laurel. confer honor on, reflect honor on &c. v.; shed a lu ster on; redound to one's honor, ennoble. give honor to, do honor to, pay honor to, render honor to; honor, accredit, pay regard to, dignify, glorify; sing prai ses to &c. (approve) 931; lock up to; exalt, aggrandize, elevate, nobilitate[Lat ]. Adj. distinguished, distingue[Fr], noted; of note &c. n.; honored &c. v.; pop ular; fashionable &c. 852. in good odor in; favor, in high favor; reputable, res pectable, creditable. remarkable &c. (important) 642; notable, notorious; celebr ated, renowned, ion every one's mouth, talked of; famous, famed; far-famed; cons picuous, to the front; foremost; in the front rank, in the ascendant. imperishab le, deathless, immortal, never fading, aere perennius[Lat][obs3]; time honored. illustrious, glorious, splendid, brilliant, radiant; bright &c. 420; full-blown; honorific. eminent, prominent; high &c. 206; in the zenith; at the head of, at the top of the tree; peerless, of the first water.; superior &c. 33; supereminen t, preeminent. great, dignified, proud, noble, honorable, worshipful, lordly, gr and, stately, august, princely. imposing, solemn, transcendent, majestic, sacred , sublime, heaven-born, heroic, sans peur et sans reproche[Fr]; sacrosanct. Int. hail! all hail! ave! viva! vive[Fr]! long life to! banzai![Jap.]; glory be to, honor be to? Phr. one's name being in every mouth, one's name living for ever; s ic itur ad astra[Lat], fama volat[Lat], aut Caesar aut nullus[Lat]; not to know him argues oneself unknown; none but himself could be his parallel, palmam qui m eruit ferat [Lat][Nelson's motto]. "above all Greek above all Roman fame" [Pope] ; - cineri gloria sera est [Lat][Martial]; "great is the glory for the strife is hard" [Wordsworth]; honor virtutis praemium [Lat][Cicero]; immensum gloria calc ar habet [Lat][obs3][Ovid]; "the glory dies not and the grief is past" [Brydges] ; vivit post funera virtus[Lat]. < p. 300 > #874. Disrepute. N. disrepute, discredit; ill repute, bad repute, bad name, bad odor, bad favor, ill name, ill odor, ill favor; disapprobation &c. 932; inglorio usness, derogation; abasement, debasement; abjectness &c. adj.; degradation, ded ecoration[obs3]; a long farewell to all my greatness [Henry VIII]; odium, obloqu y, opprobrium, ignominy. dishonor, disgrace; shame, humiliation; scandal, basene ss, vileness[obs3]; turpitude &c. (improbity) 940[obs3]; infamy. tarnish, taint, defilement, pollution. stain, blot, spot, blur, stigma, brand, reproach, imputa tion, slur. crying shame, burning shame; scandalum magnatum[Lat], badge of infam y, blot in one's escutcheon; bend sinister, bar sinister; champain[obs3], point champain[obs3]; byword of reproach; Ichabod. argumentum ad verecundiam[Lat]; sen se of shame &c. 879. V. be inglorious &c. adj.; incur disgrace &c. n.; have a ba d name, earn a bad name; put a halter round one's neck, wear a halter round one' s neck; disgrace oneself, expose oneself. play second fiddle; lose caste; pale o ne's ineffectual fire; recede into the shade; fall from one's high estate; keep in the background &c. (modesty) 881; be conscious of disgrace &c. (humility) 879 ; look blue, look foolish, look like a fool; cut a poor figure, cut a sorry figu re; laugh on the wrong side of the mouth; make a sorry face, go away with a flea in. one's ear, slink away. cause shame &c. n.; shame, disgrace, put to shame, d ishonor; throw dishonor upon, cast dishonor upon, fling dishonor upon, reflect d ishonor upon &c. n.; be a reproach &c. n. to; derogate from. tarnish, stain, blo t sully, taint; discredit; degrade, debase, defile; beggar; expel &c. (punish) 9 72. impute shame to, brand, post, stigmatize, vilify, defame, slur, cast a slur

upon, hold up to shame, send to Coventry; tread under foot, trample under foot; show up, drag through the mire, heap dirt upon; reprehend &c. 932. bring low, pu t down, snub; take down a peg, take down a peg lower, take down a peg or two. ob scure. eclipse, outshine, take the shine out of; throw into the shade, cast into the shade; overshadow; leave in the background, put in the background; push int o a corner, put one's nose out of joint; put out, put out of countenance. upset, throw off one's center; discompose, disconcert; put to the blush &c. (humble) 8 79. Adj. disgraced &c. v.; blown upon; "shorn of its beams" [Milton], shorn of o ne's glory; overcome, downtrodden; loaded with shame &c. n.; in bad repute &c. n .; out of repute, out of favor, out of fashion, out of countenance; at a discoun t; under a cloud, under an eclipse; unable to show one's face; in the shade, in the background; out at elbows, down at the elbows, down in the world. inglorious ; nameless, renownless[obs3]; obscure; unknown to fame; unnoticed, unnoted[obs3] , unhonored, unglorified[obs3]. shameful; disgraceful, discreditable, disreputab le; despicable; questionable; unbecoming, unworthy; derogatory; degrading, humil iating, infra dignitatem[Lat], dedecorous[obs3]; scandalous, infamous, too bad, unmentionable; ribald, opprobrious; errant, shocking, outrageous, notorious. ign ominious, scrubby, dirty, abject, vile, beggarly, pitiful, low, mean, shabby bas e &c. (dishonorable) 940. Adv. to one's shame be it spoken. Int. fie! shame! for shame! proh pudor[Lat]! O tempora[obs3]! O mores! ough! sic transit gloria mund i[Lat.]! - < p. 301 > #875. Nobility. N. nobility, rank, condition, distinction, optimacy[obs3], blood , pur sang[Fr], birth, high descent, order; quality, gentility; blue blood of Ca stile; ancien regime[Fr]. high life, haute monde[Fr]; upper classes, upper ten t housand; the four hundred [U. S.]; elite, aristocracy, great folks; fashionable world &c. (fashion) 852. peer, peerage; house of lords, house of peers; lords, l ords temporal and spiritual; noblesse; noble, nobleman; lord, lordling[obs3]; gr andee, magnifico[Lat], hidalgo; daimio[obs3], daimyo, samurai, shizoku [all Japa nese]; don, donship[obs3]; aristocrat, swell, three-tailed bashaw[obs3]; gentlem an, squire, squireen[obs3], patrician, laureate. gentry, gentlefolk; *squirarchy [obs3], better sort magnates, primates, optimates[obs3]; pantisocracy[obs3]. kin g &c. (master) 745; atheling[obs3]; prince, duke; marquis, marquisate[obs3]; ear l, viscount, baron, thane, banneret[obs3]; baronet, baronetcy[obs3]; knight, kni ghthood; count, armiger[obs3], laird; signior[obs3], seignior; esquire, boyar, m argrave, vavasour[obs3]; emir, ameer[obs3], scherif[obs3], sharif, effendi, wali ; sahib; chevalier, maharaja, nawab, palsgrave[obs3], pasha, rajah, waldgrave[ob s3]. princess, begum[obs3], duchess, marchioness; countess &c.; lady, dame; mems ahib; Dona, maharani, rani. personage of distinction, man of distinction, person age of rank, man of rank, personage of mark, man of mark; notables, notabilities ; celebrity, bigwig, magnate, great man, star, superstar; big bug; big gun, grea t gun; gilded rooster* [U. S.]; magni nominis umbra [Lat][Lucan]; "every inch a king" [Lear]. V. be noble &c. adj. Adj. noble, exalted; of rank &c. n.; princely , titled, patrician, aristocratic; high-, well-born; of gentle blood; genteel, c omme il faut[Fr], gentlemanlike[obs3], courtly &c. (fashionable) 852; highly res pectable. Adv. in high quarters. Phr. Adel sitzt im Gemuthe nicht im Gebluete[Ge r.]; adelig und edel sind zweierlei[obs3][Ger.]; noblesse oblige[Fr.]. #876. Commonalty. N. commonalty, democracy; obscurity; low condition, low life, low society, low company; bourgeoisie; mass of the people, mass of society; Brow n Jones and Robinson; lower classes, humbler classes, humbler orders; vulgar her d, common herd; rank and file, hoc genus omne[Lat]; the many, the general,the cr owd, the people, the populace, the multitude, the million, the masses, the mobil ity, the peasantry; king Mob; proletariat; fruges consumere nati[Lat], demos, ho i polloi [Grk][Grk][Grk], great unwashed; man in the street. mob; rabble, rabble rout; chaff, rout, horde, canaille; scum of the people, residuum of the people, dregs of the people, dregs of society; swinish multitude, foex populi[obs3]; tr ash; profanum vulgus[Lat], ignobile vulgus[Lat]; vermin, riffraff, ragtag and bo btail; small fry. commoner, one of the people, democrat, plebeian, republican, p roletary[obs3], proletaire[obs3], roturier[obs3], Mr. Snooks, bourgeois, epicier

[Fr], Philistine, cockney; grisette[obs3], demimonde. peasant, countryman, boor, carle[obs3], churl; villain, villein; terrae filius[Latin: son of the land]; se rf, kern[obs3], tyke, tike, chuff[obs3], ryot[obs3], fellah; longshoreman; swain , clown, hind; clod, clodhopper; hobnail, yokel, bog-trotter, bumpkin; plowman, plowboy[obs3]; rustic, hayseed*, lunkhead [U. S.], chaw-bacon*[obs3], tiller of the soil; hewers of wood and drawers of water, groundling[obs3]; gaffer, loon, p ut, cub, Tony Lumpkin[obs3], looby[obs3], rube* [U. S.], lout, underling; gamin; rough; pot-wallopper[obs3], slubberdegullion|; vulgar fellow, low fellow; cad, curmudgeon. upstart, parvenu, skipjack[obs3]; nobody, nobody one knows; hesterni quirites[Lat], pessoribus orti[Lat]; bourgeois gentilhomme[Fr], novus homo[Lat] , snob, gent, mushroom, no one knows who, adventurer; man of straw. beggar, gabe rlunzie[obs3], muckworm[obs3], mudlark[obs3], sans culotte, raff[obs3], tatterde malion, caitiff, ragamuffin, Pariah, outcast of society, tramp, vagabond, bezoni an[obs3], panhandler*, sundowner[obs3], chiffonnier, Cinderella, cinderwench[obs 3], scrub, jade; gossoon[obs3]. Goth, Vandal, Hottentot, Zulu, savage, barbarian , Yahoo; unlicked cub[obs3], rough diamond|!. barbarousness, barbarism; boeotia. V. be ignoble &c. adj., be nobody &c. n. Adj. ignoble, common, mean, low, base, vile, sorry, scrubby, beggarly; below par; no great shakes &c. (unimportant) 64 3; homely, homespun; vulgar, low-minded; snobbish. plebeian, proletarian; of low parentage, of low origin, of low extraction, of mean parentage, of mean origin, of mean extraction; lowborn, baseborn, earthborn[obs3]; mushroom, dunghill, ris en from the ranks; unknown to fame, obscure, untitled. rustic, uncivilized; lout ish, boorish, clownish, churlish, brutish, raffish; rude, unlicked[obs3]. barbar ous, barbarian, barbaric, barbaresque[obs3]; cockney, born within sound of Bow b ells. underling, menial, subaltern. Adv. below the salt. Phr. dummodo sit dives barbarus ipse placet [Lat][Ovid]. < p. 302 > #877. Title. N. title, honor; knighthood &c. (nobility) 875. highness, excellenc y, grace; lordship, worship; reverence, reverend; esquire, sir, master, Mr., sig nor, senor, Mein Herr[Ger], mynheer[obs3]; your honor, his honor; serene highnes s; handle to one's name. decoration, laurel, palm, wreath, garland, bays, medal, ribbon, riband, blue ribbon, cordon, cross, crown, coronet, star, garter; feath er, feather in one,s cap; epaulet, epaulette, colors, cockade; livery; order, ar ms, shield, scutcheon; reward &c. 973. #878. Pride. N. dignity, self-respect, mens sibi conscia recti [Lat][Vergil]. pr ide; haughtiness &c. adj.; high notions, hauteur; vainglory, crest; arrogance &c . (assumption) 885. proud man, highflier[obs3]; fine gentleman, fine lady. V. be proud &c. adj.; put a good face on; look one in the face; stalk abroad, perk on eself up; think no small beer of oneself; presume, swagger, strut; rear one's he ad, lift up one's head, hold up one's head; hold one's head high, look big, take the wall, "bear like the Turk no rival near the throne" [Pope], carry with a hi gh hand; ride the high horse, mount on one's high horse; set one's back up, brid le, toss the head; give oneself airs &c. (assume) 885; boast &c. 884. pride ones elf on; glory in, take a pride in; pique oneself, plume oneself, hug oneself; st and upon, be proud of; put a good face on; not hide one's light under a bushel, not put one's talent in a napkin; not think small beer of oneself &c. (vanity) 8 80. Adj. dignified; stately; proud, proud-crested; lordly, baronial; lofty-minde d; highsouled, high-minded, high-mettled[obs3], high-handed, high-plumed, high-f lown, high-toned. haughty lofty, high, mighty, swollen, puffed up, flushed, blow n; vainglorious; purse-proud, fine; proud as a peacock, proud as Lucifer; bloate d with pride. supercilious, disdainful, bumptious, magisterial, imperious, high and mighty, overweening, consequential; arrogant &c. 885; unblushing &c. 880. st iff, stiff-necked; starch; perked stuck-up; in buckram, strait- laced; prim &c. (affected) 855. on one's dignity, on one's high horses,on one's tight ropes, on one's high ropes; on stilts; en grand seigneur [Fr]. Adv. with head erect. Phr. odi profanum vulgus et arceo [Lat][Horace]. "a duke's revenues on her back" [Hen ry VI]; "disdains the shadow which he treads on at noon" [Coriolanis]; "pride in

their port, defiance in their eye" [Goldsmith]. #879. Humility. N. humility, humbleness; meekness, lowness; lowliness, lowlihood [obs3]; abasement, self-abasement; submission &c. 725; resignation. condescensio n; affability &c. (courtesy) 894. modesty &c. 881; verecundity|, blush, suffusio n, confusion; sense of shame,sense of disgrace; humiliation, mortification; let down, set down. V. be humble &c. adj.; deign, vouchsafe, condescend; humble ones elf, demean oneself; stoop, stoop to conquer; carry coals; submit &c. 725; submi t with a good grace &c. (brook) 826; yield the palm. lower one's tone, lower one 's note; sing small, draw in one's horns, sober down; hide one's face, hide one' s diminished head; not dare to show one's face, take shame to oneself, not have a word to say for oneself; feel shame, be conscious of shame, feel disgrace, be conscious of disgrace; drink the cup of humiliation to the dregs. blush for, blu sh up to the eves; redden, change color; color up; hang one's head, look foolish , feel small. render humble; humble, humiliate; let down, set down, take down, t read down, frown down; snub, abash, abase, make one sing small, strike dumb; tea ch one his distance; put down, take down a peg, take down a peg lower; throw int o the shade, cast into the shade &c. 874; stare out of countenance, put out of c ountenance; put to the blush; confuse, ashame[obs3], mortify, disgrace, crush; s end away with a flea in one's ear. get a setdown[obs3]. Adj. humble, lowly, meek ; modest &c. 881; humble minded, sober- minded; unoffended[obs3]; submissive &c. 725; servile, &c. 886. condescending; affable &c. (courteous) 891. humbled &c. v.; bowed down, resigned; abashed, ashamed, dashed; out of countenance; down in the mouth; down on one's knees, down on one's marrowbones, down on one's uppers; humbled in the dust, browbeaten; chapfallen[obs3], crestfallen; dumfoundered[ob s3]. flabbergasted. shorn of one's glory &c. (disrepute) 874. Adv. with downcast eyes, with bated breath, with bended knee; on all fours, on one's feet. under c orrection, with due deference. Phr. I am your obedient servant, I am your very h umble servant; my service to you; da locum melioribus [Lat][Terence]; parvum par va decent [Lat][Horace].

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