Overween
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Overween is a verb meaning (ergative) To think too highly or arrogantly of (oneself).
Meaning
(ergative) To think too highly or arrogantly of (oneself).
More Meanings
- To make or render arrogant and overweening.
- (proscribed) To overwhelm.
Example Sentences
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.
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; […]
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.
Word Forms
- overweens
- overweening
- overweened
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include excessive, extravagant, uppity, exuberant, immodest, unrestrained.
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