Meaning of overween | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To think too highly or arrogantly of (oneself).
   ergative
2. To make or render arrogant and overweening.
3. To overwhelm.
   proscribed

Examples

“and they that overween, / And at thy growing virtues fret their spleen,”

“The clouds on Futurity Day bore out in a general way this prognostication. But he overweened himself.”

“There is, I suppose, the cheap drama of man sticking his nose into an area where it does little good except to expand his already overweened vanity.”

“Sometimes we manage to come up with original ways of viewing a world hardened, stratified, overweened by its own power, a world which believes itself as omnipotent as its technological achievements might seem to imply.”

“The invasion of a vast enemy host upon the unprepared is unstoppable; the huge phalanx of tanks overweens our small army of trucks and rifles; […]”

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