All 3 Uses
conceit
in
Atonement, by Ian McEwan
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- Now he understood how conceited a delusion this was.†
Chpt 2 *conceited = excessively proud of oneself
- For one can assume too much sometimes, in fits of conceited self-blame.†
Chpt 2
- Suddenly, she was right there before me, that busy, priggish, conceited little girl, and she was not dead either, for when people tittered appreciatively at "evanesce" my feeble heart—ridiculous vanity!†
Chpt 3
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.