The Only Use
conceit
in
Much Ado About Nothing
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- I' faith, lady, I think your blazon to be true; though, I'll be sworn, if he be so, his conceit is false.†
Scene 2.1
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.