Both Uses
conceit
in
The Secret Garden
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- "He's a conceited one," he chuckled.†
p. 34.1 *conceited = excessively proud of oneself
- Ben Weatherstaff says he is so conceited he would rather have stones thrown at him than not be noticed.†
p. 143.4
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.