Both Uses
conceit
in
The Silver Chair
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- And Jill was thinking, "He's the silliest, most conceited, selfish pig I've met for a long time."
Chpt 11 *conceited = excessively proud of himself
- Their faces changed, and all the meanness, conceit, cruelty, and sneakishness almost disappeared in one single expression of terror.†
Chpt 16
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.