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overweeningness

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The quality of being overweening; undue confidence; presumption; arrogance.

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  • noun The quality of being overweening.

Etymologies

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overweening +‎ -ness

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Examples

  • And, when Honore, not daring to argue further, took refuge in his sly, not to say supercilious, smile, she taxed him with overweeningness — an accusation that had some truth in it.

    Balzac 2003

  • And, when Honore, not daring to argue further, took refuge in his sly, not to say supercilious, smile, she taxed him with overweeningness -- an accusation that had some truth in it.

    Balzac Frederick Lawton

  • And it is overweeningness and self-confident will that are the chief notes of Macaulay's style.

    Critical Miscellanies, Volume I (of 3) Essay 4: Macaulay John Morley 1880

  • And, when Honore, not daring to argue further, took refuge in his sly, not to say supercilious, smile, she taxed him with overweeningness ” an accusation that had some truth in it.

    Balzac Lawton, Frederick 1910

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