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conceit
conceit in literature, fanciful or unusual image in which apparently dissimilar things are shown to have a relationship. The Elizabethan poets were fond of Petrarchan conceits, which were conventional comparisons, imitated from the love songs of Petrarch, in which the beloved was compared to a flow... Read more
figure of speech
figure of speech intentional departure from straight-forward, literal use of language for the purpose of clarity, emphasis, or freshness of expression. See separate articles on antithesis ; apostrophe ; conceit ; hyperbole ; irony ; litotes ; metaphor ; metonymy ; paradox ; personificatio... Read more
Johann Christoph Gottsched
Johann Christoph Gottsched , 1700-1766, German literary critic, disciple of the Enlightenment. As professor of poetry and philosophy at the Univ. of Leipzig, he virtually dictated intellectual life in that city, and he exerted great influence upon 18th-century German letters, largely through the con... Read more
Sidney Lanier
Sidney Lanier , 1842-81, American poet and musician, b. Macon, Ga., grad. Oglethorpe College 1860. His first work, the novel Tiger-Lilies (1867), was based on his experiences as a Confederate soldier in the Civil War. An accomplished musician, Lanier was first flutist of the Peabody Orchestra, Bal... Read more
metaphysical poets
metaphysical poets name given to a group of English lyric poets of the 17th cent. The term was first used by Samuel Johnson (1744). The hallmark of their poetry is the metaphysical conceit (a figure of speech that employs unusual and paradoxical images), a reliance on intellectual wit, learned imag... Read more
William Empson
William Empson 1906-84, English critic and poet. His Seven Types of Ambiguity (1930), a study of the meanings of poetry, is a classic of modern literary criticism. It was followed by Some Versions of Pastoral (1935) and The Structure of Complex Words (1951). In Milton's God (1961) Empson en... Read more
Nebuchadnezzar
Nebuchadnezzar , d. 562 BC, king of Babylonia (c.605-562 BC), son and successor of Nabopolassar. In his father's reign he was sent to oppose the Egyptians, who were occupying W Syria and Palestine. At Carchemish he met and defeated (605 BC) Pharaoh Necho , thus becoming the undisputed master of Wes... Read more

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conceit
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition conceit in literature, fanciful...fond of Petrarchan conceits, which were conventional...poets , who fashioned conceits that were witty...declaring that in the conceit "the most heterogeneous...Eliot have used conceits.
Literature for Adults
Encyclopedia entry from: Macmillan Encyclopedia of Death and Dying ...implications. Western literature incorporates a number of conceits that are specifically associated with death. These include...images like the deathbed scene. But in order to appreciate such conceits, one first needs to understand the way literature has reflected...
Greene, Robert
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre ...of Shakespeare as a playwright—‘an upstart Crow, beautified with our feathers … in his own conceit the only Shake-scene in a country’. Greene was a prolific writer, and as the friend of Marlowe, Nashe , and...
P
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language ...ry’). (3) The p of receipt is an etymologically motivated insertion and was formerly often also inserted in conceit and deceit , but Samuel JOHNSON kept it only in receipt on grounds of common usage. (4) Silent p occurs in sapphire , whose...
SAXONISM
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language ...forgotten and where remembered is usually seen as quaint and unrealistic. Currently, Saxonism occurs directly as a literary conceit and indirectly in campaigns for simpler English. In humorous writing, vernacular alternatives to established Romance words...
Nash, Richard
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History ...to a position as master of ceremonies (later, additionally, at Tunbridge Wells), where, mixing kindness, generosity, conceit, and cynicism, he crusaded against overcharging, duelling, and informality. Although ‘arbiter elegantarium...
Benlowes, Edward
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature Benlowes, Edward (?1602–76), poet, whose principle work was Theophila, or Love's Sacrifice (1652), celebrating the epic progress of the soul in learned, obscure and occasionally grotesque conceits and language.
Empson, Sir William
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature ...analytical argument and imagery drawn from modern physics and mathematics; a technical virtuoso, he employed metaphysical conceits and linguistic, metrical, and syntactical complexities. Using Biography (1984), a posthumous collection of essays, 1958...
Shakespeare, William
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature ...supposes he is well able to bombast out a blanke verse as the best of you’ and who ‘is in his owne conceit the onely Shakes-cene in a countrey’ suggests rivalry, and parody of a line from 3 Henry VI shows that Shakespeare...
metaphysical poets
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature ...muscular’ rhythms, giving the effect of a ‘speaking voice’, and the use of ‘conceits’, or comparisons in which tenor and vehicle can be related only by ingenious pseudo-logic. With the new taste...

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conceit
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology conceit †conception, thought; personal...opinion, etc., fancy XV; for self-conceit XVII. f. CONCEIVE on the analogy of the...was prob. designed to represent. Hence conceit vb. XVI. conceited XVI. f. vb. or...
Conceit
Dictionary entry from: Allusions--Cultural, Literary, Biblical, and Historical: A Thematic Dictionary 120. Conceit (See also , , .) Ajax ( the lesser ) boastful and insolent; drowns...Duchess of la Valliere , Brewer Hand-book , 721] narcissus flower of conceit. [Plant Symbolism: Flora Symbolica , 170; Gk. Myth.: Zimmerman...
self-conceit
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English self-con·ceit • n. another term for self-congratulation . DERIVATIVES: self-con·ceit·ed adj.
Periodization
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas ...Claude de Seyssel adapted Joachim's conceit of four ages to French history, marking...history was through the biblically inspired conceit of the succession of four world monarchies...in other ages" — whence the conceit of a rebirth of antiquity and the aforementioned...
Māna
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions Māna (Pāli, Skt.). Pride, conceit; a moral fault in Buddhism. It takes three forms: thinking of oneself as inferior to, equal to, or better than others.
asmi-māna
Book article from: A Dictionary of Buddhism asmi-māna (Skt.; Pāli, the conceit ‘I am’). Inappropriate evaluation of self-worth when drawing comparisons with others. It may take the...
saṃyojana
Book article from: A Dictionary of Buddhism ...pa-dhātu ); (7) craving for the Formless Realm ( ārūpya-dhātu ); (8) conceit ( asmi-māna ); (9) restlessness (uddhatya); (10) ignorance ( avidyā ). The first five are known...
vanity
Book article from: A Dictionary of the Bible vanity A familiar refrain in Eccles. (e.g. 1: 2), asserting that life has no meaning. It is a theme in Isa. (57: 13) that idols are nothing but vanity (cf. Acts 14: 15). In the OT and NT ‘vanity’ does not mean empty pride or conceit.
māna
Book article from: A Dictionary of Buddhism māna (Skt.; Pāli, conceit). The eighth of the ten fetters ( saṃyojana ) which bind one to the cycle of rebirth ( saṃsā...
Quarles, Francis
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church ...later years he wrote devotional prose; his Enchiridion (1640), a collection of thoughts on religion and morals, achieved great popularity. Though often overladen with conceits and epithets, his poetry shows deep religious feeling.

Thesaurus entries related to "conceit"

conceit
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English conceit • noun   1. the winner full of conceit synonyms : pride, arrogance...xA0; 2. exchanging clever conceits synonyms : witticism, quip...3. a mind occupied with conceits synonyms : fancy idea, notion...
egotism
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...narcissism, self-admiration, vanity, conceit, self-importance; boastfulness. See...AWKWARD SYNONYMS   egotism, conceit, egoism, narcissism, solipsism, vanity...documented). There is nothing neutral about conceit , which carries strong connotations of...
pride
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English ...with pride at his achievement synonyms : conceit, vanity, arrogance, haughtiness, self-importance, self-conceit, self-love, self-glorification...xA0; USAGE NOTES   arrogance, conceit, egotism, self-esteem, vainglory...
egoism
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English ...self-love, narcissism, vanity, conceit, pride, self-esteem, self-importance...humbleness.   USAGE NOTES   conceit, egotism, narcissism, solipsism, vanity...documented). There is nothing neutral about conceit , which carries strong connotations of...
vanity
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English vanity • noun   1. his vanity about his looks/achievements synonyms : conceit, conceitedness, self-conceit, self-admiration, self-love, narcissism, egotism, pride, haughtiness, arrogance, boastfulness...
narcissism
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English narcissism • noun   synonyms : self-admiration, self-love, conceit, self-conceit, vanity, egotism.
megalomania
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus megalomania • noun  the megalomania during the "up" phases of his bipolar disorder has gotten worse synonyms : delusions of grandeur, folie de grandeur, thirst/lust for power; self-importance, egotism, conceit, conceitedness.
assumption
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English ...embarkation on. See assume 4.   5. the invaders' assumption of power synonyms : seizure, appropriation, usurping. See assume 5.   6. amazed at his assumption synonyms : arrogance, presumption, conceit, impertinence.
haughtiness
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus haughtiness • noun  people were quickly put off by her haughtiness synonyms : arrogance, conceit, pride, hubris, hauteur, vanity, self-importance, pomposity, condescension, disdain, contempt; snobbishness, snobbery...
puncture
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English ...tire synonyms : make a hole in, perforate, pierce, bore, prick, spike, penetrate, rupture, cut, nick, slit.   2. the news punctured his feeling of joy | puncture his conceit synonyms : prick, deflate, flatten, reduce.

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Religion's anthropocentric conceit: atheism's cosmic modesty is more moral.
Newspaper article from: Free Inquiry; 12/1/2003; ; 700+ words ; ...example of what I view as "anthropocentric conceit" than in this book. After repeated invocations...and David Noebel, this anthropocentric conceit is a notable feature. So many accounts...with such quantities of anthropocentric conceit that it almost becomes plausible. As...
Impure Conceits: Rhetoric and Ideology in Wordsworth's "Excursion".(Review)
Magazine article from: Studies in Romanticism; 3/22/2000; ; 700+ words ; Alison Hickey. Impure Conceits: Rhetoric and Ideology in Wordsworth...surprised by Alison Hickey's Impure Conceits. Hickey takes a refreshingly enthusiastic...are always qualified by "impure conceits," the indeterminate, errant, and...
The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism.
Magazine article from: The Economist (US); 1/28/1989; 700+ words ; THE FATAL CONCEIT: THE ERRORS OF SOCIALISM FRIEDRICH HAYEK...Such attempts have been based on the "conceit" that it is possible to sit down and...through some sort of central authority. The conceit is "fatal", in Mr Hayek's view...
The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism; The Collected Works of F.A. Hayek, vol. 1.
Magazine article from: The Nation; 4/17/1989; ; 700+ words ; THE FATAL CONCEIT: The Errors of Socialism. The Collected...Press. 180 pp. $24.95. The fatal conceit of socialism, says F. A. Hayek, is...this Olympian perspective, The Fatal Conceit adds little to our knowledge of why socialist...
Fed: Abbott imposing "theological conceit" in stemcell debate - Carr
Newspaper article from: AAP General News (Australia); 8/24/2006; 616 words ; ...2006 Fed: Abbott imposing "theological conceit" in stemcell debate - Carr CANBERRA...is imposing his "tortured theological conceit" in the debate about expanding stem cell...people who hold pretty tortured theological conceit to stand in the way of research that can...
Socialism's 'fatal conceit'
Newspaper article from: Tribune-Review/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review; 2/23/2009; ; 700+ words ; ...unavoidably, because it is based on the flawed concept, the "fatal conceit," that one man or one group, one Cabinet of commanding officials...flaws that Hayek warned of, i.e., lack of knowledge and conceit, that are simultaneously present in our political leadership...
Shedding crumbs and conceit
Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post; 4/8/2009; ; 700+ words ; ...Jerusalem Post 04-08-2009 Headline: Shedding crumbs and conceit Byline: JUDY MONTAGU Edition; Daily Section: Opinion Page...possibly more prone than others to falling into the trap of conceit and ostentation. Modesty - in men or women, old or young...
The Conference's Conceit
Newspaper article from: Forward; 9/16/1994; ; 700+ words ; Leonard Fein Forward 09-16-1994 The Conference's Conceit. The Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations...that when your voice speaks, masses attend. The unavoidable conceit is fed, as well, by the respectful treatment the Conference...
An imperialist conceit at No 10
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman; 6/18/1999; ; 700+ words ; ...would soon end up leading the enterprise. It is an imperialist conceit which still holds sway in 10 Downing Street today. Tony Blair...was at the Brussels helm. It is, of course, a ludicrous conceit. But scratch a europhile, from Downing Street down, and...
Mugabe's 'fatal conceit'
Newspaper article from: Tribune-Review/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review; 8/20/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...page example recently of what F.A. Hayek called "the fatal conceit" -- the idea that some great mind or committee can do a better...Wines -- provides a perfect illustration of how the "fatal conceit" of government can turn a difficulty into a catastrophe...