All 6 Uses
conceit
in
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
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- Six Barbary horses against six French swords, their assigns, and three liberal-conceited carriages— that's the French bet against the Danish.†
p. 269.3conceited = excessively proud of oneself
- Is it not monstrous that this player here,
But in a fiction, in a dream of passion,
Could force his soul so to his own conceit
That from her working all his visage wanned,
Tears in his eyes, distraction in his aspect,
A broken voice, and his whole function suiting
With forms to his conceit—and all for nothing!†p. 117.2 - Is it not monstrous that this player here,
But in a fiction, in a dream of passion,
Could force his soul so to his own conceit
That from her working all his visage wanned,
Tears in his eyes, distraction in his aspect,
A broken voice, and his whole function suiting
With forms to his conceit—and all for nothing!†p. 117.3 - Conceit in weakest bodies strongest works.†
p. 177.7 *
- Conceit upon her father.†
p. 209.3
- Three of the carriages, in faith, are very dear to fancy, very responsive to the hilts, most delicate carriages, and of very liberal conceit.†
p. 269.1
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.