Feelings of excessive pride.
1 This notion grew and crystallized; thus adding to his natural North-country conceit .
2 And in my conceit I deemed the Rembrandt to be absolutely safe.
3 It is self-love inflamed to the acute point; conceit , WITH A HAIR-TRIGGER.
4 For one, it is cursing and swearing; for another vanity and conceit .
5 You are not the first in whose conceit that heresy hath entered.
6 The opinion polls suggest that this conceit is, remarkably, not that far-fetched.
7 It is a German conceit , that the vertebrae are absolutely undeveloped skulls.
8 From this or some similar conceit the practice of cremation probably originated.
9 The shock would take a little of the conceit out of him.
10 He looked up whimsically at the sky and smiled at the conceit .
11 And many other people encouraged her in a fine conceit of herself.
12 The governor smiled at this conceit , but continued his observations in silence.
13 Curtis laughed at the conceit , which was grotesque in its very essence.
14 If he had a fault, it was certainly not self - conceit ; but Mlle.
15 For there is nothing like ostentation or conceit of intellect in Portia.
16 Everything but conceit can be forgiven to a young person in society.
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