The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word PRIDE
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More clues leading to the result PRIDE
- Quiet journey gives deeply satisfying feeling
- Pressure to mount gay festival?
- Parking vehicle gives sense of achievement
- Sense of achievement from hunting animals collectively
- Sin of wife-to-be bishop ignored after pressure
- Many cats purr first then hack
- Much abbreviated service offered by some councils to motorists’ family group
- Frequently spurn; indeed, one glows, having this?
- Under pressure to go on for self- respect
- Some cats curiously examined via the mouth
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What does PRIDE mean?
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 manifests itself in lofty airs, distance, reserve and often contempt of others.
- (often with of or in) A sense of one's own worth, and abhorrence of what is beneath or unworthy of one; lofty self-respect; noble self-esteem; elevation of character; dignified bearing; proud delight; -- in a good sense.
- Proud or disdainful behavior or treatment; insolence or arrogance of demeanor; haughty bearing and conduct; insolent exultation; disdain; hubris.
- 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.
- Show; ostentation; glory.
- Highest pitch; elevation reached; loftiness; prime; glory,
- Consciousness of power; fullness of animal spirits; mettle; wantonness.
- Lust; sexual desire; especially, excitement of sexual appetite in a female beast.
- (collective) A company of lions or other large felines.
- The small European lamprey species Petromyzon branchialis.
- Alternative letter-case form of Pride.
- To take or experience pride in something; to be proud of it.