Both Uses
conceit
in
The Sun Also Rises
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- There was nothing conceited or braggartly about him.
Book 2.16 *conceited = excessively proud
- The sort of healthy conceit that he had when he returned from America early in the spring was gone.†
Book 1.6
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.