Both Uses
conceit
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June Recital
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- That was the conceited thing girls and women would try.†
*conceited = excessively proud of oneself
- And Virgie handled everything with her finger stuck out; she was conceited over a musician's cyst that appeared on her fourth finger.†
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.