How to pronounce“overweening”in English
nounI've got the kite in my hands and I'm going to step off the pre just point me to where the precipice is if you don't mind and I've got the ego that I will
sail this kite in space uh but just uh help me with the help me get to the precipice you can have ego an overwhelming overweening ego what what
what kind of a mind would get in a spaceship and go to Ms for the first time who who would do that right except somebody who thought I
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Definitions of “overweening”
Unduly confident; (sometimes also) arrogant.
“She wins one modeling contest in Montana and suddenly she’s overweening.”
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.”
An excessively high opinion of oneself or one’s abilities; presumption, arrogance.
“Let us suppresse this over-weening [translating cuider], the first foundation of the tyrannie of the wicked spirit[…].”
present participle and gerund of overween
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