All 3 Uses of
conceit
in
Othello, the Moor of Venice
- And didst contract and purse thy brow together, As if thou then hadst shut up in thy brain Some horrible conceit: if thou dost love me, Show me thy thought.†
Scene 3.3 *conceit = excessive pride
- I do beseech you,— Though I perchance am vicious in my guess, As, I confess, it is my nature's plague To spy into abuses, and of my jealousy Shape faults that are not,—that your wisdom yet, From one that so imperfectly conceits, Would take no notice; nor build yourself a trouble Out of his scattering and unsure observance:— It were not for your quiet nor your good, Nor for my manhood, honesty, or wisdom, To let you know my thoughts.†
Scene 3.3
- The Moor already changes with my poison: Dangerous conceits are in their natures poisons, Which at the first are scarce found to distaste, But, with a little act upon the blood, Burn like the mines of sulphur.†
Scene 3.3
Definitions:
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(1)
(conceit as in: confident, but not conceited) feelings of excessive pride
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Much less commonly and archaically, conceit can mean to conceive.