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adjective
1.
presumptuously conceited, overconfident, or proud: a brash, insolent, overweening fellow.
2.
exaggerated, excessive, or arrogant: overweening prejudice; overweening pride.
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Overweening
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Example Sentences
- But for all of my overweening rationality, my world remained a dark, forbidding place beyond my control.
- But there were some oddities and curious omissions and overweening pretensions, too.
- Perhaps overweening vanity has run its course for the moment.
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Word Origin & History
overweening
1340, from prp. of overwenen "be conceited, presume," from O.E. ofer-wenian, from ofer + "over" + wenian (see ween).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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