CONCEIT
\kənsˈiːt], \kənsˈiːt], \k_ə_n_s_ˈiː_t]\
Definitions of CONCEIT
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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Faculty of conceiving ideas; mental faculty; apprehension; as, a man of quick conceit.
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Quickness of apprehension; active imagination; lively fancy.
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A fanciful, odd, or extravagant notion; a quant fancy; an unnatural or affected conception; a witty thought or turn of expression; a fanciful device; a whim; a quip.
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Design; pattern.
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To conceive; to imagine.
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To form an idea; to think.
By Oddity Software
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Over-estimate of ones self: too favorable opinion of ones own good qualities: a pleasant, fantastical, or affected notion.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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Conception; apprehension; opinion; a baseless faney; an over-estimate of self; a pleasant and ingenious, generally whimsical, notion.
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To conceive.
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To form a notion. Out of conceit with, having lost all favour for. See Conceive.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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An opinion; a pleasant fancy; an affected expression or forced allusion; an imagination of one's own importance.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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n. [Latin] Conception; notion; faculty of conceiving; apprehension; —a quaint fancy; a fantastic turn of thought or expression; —over estimation of one’s self; vanity.
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