Sentence:  I remember a lady coming to inspect St. Mary's Home where I was brought up and seeing us all in our lovely Elizabethan uniforms we were so <WSD>proud</WSD> of, and bursting into tears all over us because "it was wicked to dress us like charity children". We nearly crowned her we were so offended. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Possessed of a due sense of what one deserves or is worth.