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conceit
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{n} {v}
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Definition:{n} That which is conceived, imagined, or formed in the mind; idea; thought; image; conception. [Obs.](v} To conceive; to imagine. [Archaic](v} To form an idea; to think. [Obs.]Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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though your reasons seem inwardly to yourself somewhat substantial, and your persuasions pithy in your own conceit, yet being well-weighed without, they be shadows without substance, and weak without force.
John Lyly. Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit (1578)
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the comparison of Phaëton was so obvious, that he could not forbear applying it, although I did not much admire the conceit.
Jonathan Swift. Gulliver’s Travels (1726)
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But in a fiction, in a dream of passion, Could force his soul so to his own conceit
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The most grotesque and fantastic conceits haunted him in his bed at night.
F. Scott Fitzgerald. The Great Gatsby (1925)
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