, one of the deadly sins, the others being covetousness, lust, anger, gluttony, envy, and sloth. They are considered fatal to spiritual progress. (Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary) Pride is the state or quality of being proud; possessing or showing too great self-esteem; arrogant, haughty, lordly, insolent, overbearing, supercilious, disdainful, exhibiting scorn for those considered inferior. Pride implies a disposition to claim more consideration than is due; it also involves by inference, a contemptuousness for the weaker, or the littler things of life, so considered. It exhibits an excessive Vanity which leads to boasting and an arrogant display of one's power, skill, influence, or the like. (See ibid.)