All 4 Uses
conceit
in
Romeo and Juliet
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- Conceit, more rich in matter than in words,
Brags of his substance, not of ornament:
They are but beggars that can count their worth;
But my true love is grown to such excess,
I cannot sum up sum of half my wealth.†p. 118.4 * - Conceit, more rich in matter than in words,
Brags of his substance, not of ornament:
They are but beggars that can count their worth;
But my true love is grown to such excess,
I cannot sum up sum of half my wealth.†p. 111.7 * - Or, if I live, is it not very like
The horrible conceit of death and night,
Together with the terror of the place,—As in a vault, an ancient receptacle,
Where, for this many hundred years, the bones
Of all my buried ancestors are pack'd;
Where bloody Tybalt, yet but green in earth,
Lies festering in his shroud; where, as they say,
At some hours in the night spirits resort;—Alack, alack, is it not like that I,
So early waking,—what with loathsome smells,
And shrieks like mandrakes torn out of the earth,
That living mortals, hearing them, run mad;—†p. 202.4 - Or, if I live, is it not very like
The horrible conceit of death and night,
Together with the terror of the place,—As in a vault, an ancient receptacle,
Where, for this many hundred years, the bones
Of all my buried ancestors are pack'd;
Where bloody Tybalt, yet but green in earth,
Lies festering in his shroud; where, as they say,
At some hours in the night spirits resort;—Alack, alack, is it not like that I,
So early waking,—what with loathsome smells,
And shrieks like mandrakes torn out of the earth,
That living mortals, hearing them, run mad;—†p. 193.4
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.