Sekirov Dictionary

conceit

/kənˈsiːt/

noun 9
verb 2
forms 5

noun9

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Overly high self-esteem; vain pride; hubris.
- Plum'd with conceit he calls aloud. — 1826
•
(rhetoric) An ingenious expression or metaphorical idea, especially in extended form or used as a literary or rhetorical device.
- In the next and final stanza, Donne expands the conceit of world exploration to present us with a further distinction between the spirituality of the lovers and the “map reader” and “sea-discoverers.” — 2009
•
A novel or fanciful idea; a whim.
- On his way to the gibbet, a freak took him in the head to go off with a conceit. — 1692
•
The faculty of conceiving ideas; mental faculty; apprehension.
- How often, alas! did her eyes say unto me that they loved! and yet I, not looking for such a matter, had not my conceit open to understand them. — 1587
•
Quickness of apprehension; active imagination; lively fancy.
- His wit's as thick as Tewksbury mustard; there is no more conceit in him than is in a mallet. — 1596
•
Design; pattern.
- And yet I know not how conceit may rob the treasury of life when life itself yields to the theft — 1603
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(no longer used) Something conceived in the mind; an idea, a thought.
- In laughing, there ever procedeth a conceit of somewhat ridiculous. — 1627
(no longer used) Opinion, (neutral) judgment.
(dialect, no longer used) Esteem, favourable opinion.

verb2

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(no longer used) To form an idea; to think.
- Those whose […] vulgar apprehensions conceit but low of matrimonial purposes. — 1643
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(no longer used) To conceive.
- [T]his Medicine he conceits worse than the Disesase. — 1680

forms

conceited · conceiting · conceiteth · conceits · conceitest

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