All 3 Uses of
conceit
in
A Room With A View
- You think you're so holy and truthful, but really it's only abominable conceit.†
Chpt 8conceit = excessive pride
- Immediately he realized that of all the conceited, ludicrous, contemptible ways of announcing an engagement this was the worst.†
Chpt 8 *conceited = excessively proud of oneself
- He was a snob, and so conceited, and he did say such unkind things.†
Chpt 9
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.