Both Uses
conceit
in
The Two Gentlemen of Verona
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- No, girl; I'll knit it up in silken strings With twenty odd-conceited true-love knots: To be fantastic may become a youth Of greater time than I shall show to be.†
Scene 2.7conceited = excessively proud of oneself
- Proteus, the good conceit I hold of thee,—For thou hast shown some sign of good desert,—Makes me the better to confer with thee.†
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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.