Both Uses
conceit
in
It Happened to Nancy
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- Oh, what a dumb, dumb idiot I've been and unappreciative and irresponsible and conceited!†
p. 34.7 *conceited = excessively proud of oneself
- Is that being conceited?†
p. 185.6
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.