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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Examples
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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
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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
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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
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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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