All 11 Uses
conceit
in
Pride and Prejudice
(Edited)
- So high and so conceited that there was no enduring him!
p. 15.8conceited = excessively proud of oneself
- They were in fact very fine ladies; not deficient in good humor when they were pleased, nor in the power of making themselves agreeable when they chose it, but proud and conceited.
p. 17.5conceited = vain (excessively proud of themselves)
- Mary had neither genius nor taste; and though vanity had given her application, it had given her likewise a pedantic air and conceited manner, which would have injured a higher degree of excellence than she had reached.
p. 25.9conceited = self-important
- It seems to me to show an abominable sort of conceited independence, a most country-town indifference to decorum.
p. 36.6conceited = arrogant (overly confident)
- And, if I may mention so delicate a subject, endeavor to check that little something, bordering on conceit and impertinence, which your lady possesses.
p. 51.5conceit = excessive pride or arrogance
- The subjection in which his father had brought him up had given him originally great humility of manner; but it was now a good deal counteracted by the self-conceit of a weak head, living in retirement, and the consequential feelings of early and unexpected prosperity.
p. 69.3conceit = inflated self-importance
- In his library he had been always sure of leisure and tranquillity; and though prepared, as he told Elizabeth, to meet with folly and conceit in every other room of the house, he was used to be free from them there; his civility, therefore, was most prompt in inviting Mr. Collins to join his daughters in their walk; and Mr. Collins, being in fact much better fitted for a walker than a reader, was extremely pleased to close his large book, and go.
p. 70.8conceit = vanity
- "Mr. Collins," said she, "speaks highly both of Lady Catherine and her daughter; but from some particulars that he has related of her ladyship, I suspect his gratitude misleads him, and that in spite of her being his patroness, she is an arrogant, conceited woman."
p. 82.3conceited = vain
- Mr. Collins is a conceited, pompous, narrow-minded, silly man; you know he is, as well as I do; and you must feel, as well as I do, that the woman who married him cannot have a proper way of thinking.
p. 133.6conceited = excessively proud
- From the very beginning—from the first moment, I may almost say—of my acquaintance with you, your manners, impressing me with the fullest belief of your arrogance, your conceit, and your selfish disdain of the feelings of others, were such as to form the groundwork of disapprobation on which succeeding events have built so immovable a dislike; and I had not known you a month before I felt that you were the last man in the world whom I could ever be prevailed on to marry.
p. 188.8conceit = excessive pride
- I was given good principles, but left to follow them in pride and conceit.
p. 349.1 *conceit = excessive prideeditor's notes: In this novel, pride turns into prejudice—on both sides. Here, Darcy admits that his pride slid into class prejudice, making him dismissive of people "beneath" him, including Elizabeth's family. That snub wounded Elizabeth's pride and caused early prejudice against him. The novel traces how both come to recognize and overcome this cycle.
Definitions:
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(1)
(conceit as in: confident, but not conceited) excessive pride in oneself, arrogance, or vanity
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) In academic and literary contexts, conceit refers to an extended metaphor. Less commonly and archaically, conceit can mean to conceive.