CONCEIT

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Traducere în limba română

conceit I. substantiv

1. îngâmfare, închipuire, înfumurare, fudulie, vanitate, prezumţie, încredere în sine, părere prea bună despre sine;

he is full of conceit e plin de îngâmfare / de sine / de amor propriu; se crede, se ţine fudul, are o părere bună despre el;

to be out of conceit with a fi nemulţumit / decepţionat / dezamăgit / deziluzionat de.

2. (înv.) concepţie, idee, opinie, părere.

3. închipuire, fantezie, imaginaţie.

4. preţiozitate, imagine preţioasă, eufuism (mai ales în poezia din sec. XVI – XVII).

5. gândire, gând, judecată, idee;

in my own conceit după câte cred (eu), după socoteala mea.

conceit II. verb A. tranzitiv

(înv.) a concepe, a(-şi) închipui, a(-şi) imagina, a inventa, a scorni, a crea (ceva);

a well-conceited play o piesă ingenios cencepută şi scrisă.

conceit II. verb B. reflexiv

conceit (that) a se convinge singur (că); a-şi închipui (că), a visa (că); a-şi face visuri (că).

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

And as to conceit, he is the farthest from it of any man I know.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

She seemed to think she had quite settled the question, and gave me such a triumphant little kiss, direct from her innocent heart, that I would hardly have put her out of conceit with her answer, for a fortune.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

In his library he had been always sure of leisure and tranquillity; and though prepared, as he told Elizabeth, to meet with folly and conceit in every other room of the house, he was used to be free from them there; his civility, therefore, was most prompt in inviting Mr. Collins to join his daughters in their walk; and Mr. Collins, being in fact much better fitted for a walker than a reader, was extremely pleased to close his large book, and go.

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)

If not wise or refined herself, she would have connected him with those who were; but Miss Hawkins, it might be fairly supposed from her easy conceit, had been the best of her own set.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

The most grotesque and fantastic conceits haunted him in his bed at night.

(The Great Gatsby, de F. Scott Fitzgerald)

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