All 5 Uses
conceit
in
Arrowsmith
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- I'm magnificently uninterested in this conceited hypnotist.†
Chpt 7 *conceited = excessively proud of oneself
- Salutary was the tartness with which she protested, "You're the most conceited man that ever lived!†
Chpt 15
- But— The conceited idiot!†
Chpt 26
- He cheerfully mentioned this to Terry, and was shockingly cursed for his conceit as a "nouveau cultured," as a "typical enthusiastic convert," and so returned to the work whose end is satisfying because there is never an end.†
Chpt 27
- Then one would have respect even from artistic New Jersey spinsters......How strange is conceit!†
Chpt 32
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.