PROUDLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does proudly mean? 

• PROUDLY (adverb)
  The adverb PROUDLY has 1 sense:

1. with pride; in a proud manner

  Familiarity information: PROUDLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PROUDLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

With pride; in a proud manner

Context example:

he walked proudly into town

Pertainym:

proud (feeling self-respect or pleasure in something by which you measure your self-worth; or being a reason for pride)

 Context examples 

I looked proudly at my work.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

"I thank you, sir," said Van Helsing proudly.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

“Nobody but myself, Trot, knows what that man is!” my aunt would proudly remark, when we conversed about it.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He finished proudly, and proudly waited.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

“Ha, ha! You remember my case!” said he proudly.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The Lion went back to the opening where the beasts of the forest were waiting for him and said proudly: You need fear your enemy no longer.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

"Easy money, eh?" Then he added proudly: "I wrote it in two days. That's fifty dollars a day."

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Mrs. March as proudly leaned on the arm of 'my son'.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Frederick too, who always wore his heart so proudly!

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

The compliment was just returned, coldly and proudly; and, under indescribable irritation of spirits, she was then conveyed to Hartfield.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)