Usually means: Taking satisfaction in personal achievements.
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  1. priding: Merriam-Webster
  2. priding: Collins English Dictionary
  3. priding: Vocabulary.com
  4. Priding, priding: Wordnik
  5. priding: Wiktionary
  6. Priding, priding: Dictionary.com
  7. priding: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  8. Priding: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. Priding: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. priding: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  11. priding: FreeDictionary.org
  12. priding: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. priding: Legal dictionary

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  1. priding: Idioms

(Note: See pride as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (pride)

noun:  The quality or state of being proud; an unreasonable overestimation of one's own superiority in terms of talents, looks, wealth, importance etc., which comes across as being lofty, distant, and often showing contempt of others.
noun:  (having a positive sense, often with of or in) A sense of one's own worth, and scorn for what is beneath or unworthy of oneself.
noun:  Proud or disdainful behavior or treatment; insolence or arrogance of demeanor; haughty bearing and conduct; insolent exultation.
noun:  That of which one is proud; that which excites boasting or self-congratulation; the occasion or ground of self-esteem, or of arrogant and presumptuous confidence, as beauty, ornament, noble character, children, etc.
noun:  Show; ostentation; glory.
noun:  Highest pitch; elevation reached; loftiness; prime; glory.
noun:  Consciousness of power; fullness of animal spirits; mettle; wantonness.
noun:  Lust; sexual desire; especially, excitement of sexual appetite in a female animal.
noun:  (zoology, collective) A company of lions or other large felines.
verb:  (reflexive) To take or experience pride in something; to be proud of it.
noun:  (zoology) The small European lamprey species Petromyzon branchialis.
noun:  A festival primarily for LGBT people, usually organized annually within a city.
noun:  A movement encouraging a positive approach to personal identity amongst LGBT people.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  Alternative letter-case form of Pride (“festival for LGBT people”). [A festival primarily for LGBT people, usually organized annually within a city.]
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