Both Uses of
conceit
in
For Whom the Bell Tolls
- Kleber, Lucasz, and Hans had done a fine job of their share in the defense of Madrid with the International Brigades and then the old bald, spectacled, conceited, stupid-as-an-owl, unintelligent-inconversation, brave— and-as-dumb-as-a-bull, propaganda-build-up defender of Madrid, Miaja, had been so jealous of the publicity Kleber received that he had forced the Russians to relieve Kieber of his command and send him to Valencia.†
Chpt 18conceited = excessively proud of oneself
- Muck their egotism and their selfishness and their selfishness and their egotism and their conceit and their treachery.†
Chpt 35 *conceit = excessive pride
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) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Much less commonly and archaically, conceit can mean to conceive.