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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