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Overweening

//oʊvɚˈwinɪŋ// adj, noun, verb

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Unduly confident; arrogant.

    "She wins one modeling contest in Montana and suddenly she’s overweening."

  2. 2
    Exaggerated, excessive.

    "The idea that an overweening federal government is a threat to both freedom and equality (not to mention prosperity) goes back to Jefferson, James Madison, Patrick Henry and some other fairly respectable personages."

Adjective
  1. 1
    presumptuously arrogant wordnet
  2. 2
    unrestrained, especially with regard to feelings wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    An excessively high opinion of oneself or one’s abilities; presumption, arrogance. archaic, countable, uncountable

    "Let us suppresse this over-weening [translating cuider], the first foundation of the tyrannie of the wicked spirit[…]."

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of overween form-of, gerund, participle, present

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English overweninge, equivalent to overween + -ing. Cognate with obsolete Dutch overwanig, overwaand (“presumptuous; cocky; conceited”).

Etymology 2

From Middle English overweninge, equivalent to overween + -ing.

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

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