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self-con·ceit
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n.
another term for self-congratulation.
DERIVATIVES:
self-con·ceit·ed
adj.
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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...
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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...
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 "The Economist (US)")
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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...
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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...
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 "AAP General News (Australia)")
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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.
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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...
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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.
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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...
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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...
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