proud vs well-pleased

proud

adj
  • Feeling honoured (by something); feeling happy or satisfied about an event or fact; gratified. 

  • Possessed of a due sense of what one deserves or is worth. 

  • standing upwards as in the manner of a proud person; stately or majestic. 

  • Generating a sense of pride; being a cause for pride. 

  • Having too high an opinion of oneself; arrogant, supercilious. 

  • That makes one feel proud (of something one did) 

  • Standing out or raised; swollen. 

well-pleased

adj
  • Highly gratified or satisfied. 

How often have the words proud and well-pleased occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )