All 10 Uses of
conceit
in
Emma
- Harriet certainly was not clever, but she had a sweet, docile, grateful disposition, was totally free from conceit, and only desiring to be guided by any one she looked up to.†
Chpt 1.3-4
- Hartfield will only put her out of conceit with all the other places she belongs to.†
Chpt 1.5-6
- "I do not think he is conceited either, in general," said Harriet, her conscience opposing such censure; "at least, he is very good natured, and I shall always feel much obliged to him, and have a great regard for—but that is quite a different thing from—and you know, though he may like me, it does not follow that I should—and certainly I must confess that since my visiting here I have seen people—and if one comes to compare them, person and manners, there is no comparison at all,…†
Chpt 1.7-8
- And as to conceit, he is the farthest from it of any man I know.†
Chpt 1.7-8
- By the bye, that is almost enough to put one out of conceit with a niece.†
Chpt 1.9-10
- Be infinitely cleverer and not half so conceited.†
Chpt 1.11-12 *
- It was dreadfully mortifying; but Mr. Elton was proving himself, in many respects, the very reverse of what she had meant and believed him; proud, assuming, conceited; very full of his own claims, and little concerned about the feelings of others.†
Chpt 1.15-16
- — But he had fancied her in love with him; that evidently must have been his dependence; and after raving a little about the seeming incongruity of gentle manners and a conceited head, Emma was obliged in common honesty to stop and admit that her own behaviour to him had been so complaisant and obliging, so full of courtesy and attention, as (supposing her real motive unperceived) might warrant a man of ordinary observation and delicacy, like Mr. Elton, in fancying himself a very…†
Chpt 1.15-16
- If not wise or refined herself, she would have connected him with those who were; but Miss Hawkins, it might be fairly supposed from her easy conceit, had been the best of her own set.†
Chpt 2.13-14
- I think him a very handsome young man, and his manners are precisely what I like and approve—so truly the gentleman, without the least conceit or puppyism.†
Chpt 3.1-2
Definition:
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(conceit as in: confident, but not conceited) feelings of excessive pride