All 3 Uses
conceit
in
The Winter's Tale
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- Believe me, thou talkest of an admirable conceited fellow.†
Scene 4.4conceited = excessively proud of oneself
- For thy conceit is soaking, will draw in More than the common blocks:—not noted, is't, But of the finer natures?†
Scene 1.2 *
- O sir, I shall be hated to report it: The prince your son, with mere conceit and fear Of the queen's speed, is gone.†
Scene 3.2
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.