How to pronounce“overweening”in English
verbquestion here is can leaders remain irrational European political leaders on all sides longer than Europe can can actually remain in be is this about
overweening pride is that what's happening it's you know there's a motion on both sides everyone digs in and both sides have a point both sides have to
compromise the question is this game of chicken as to who's gonna compromise first and more I look Gideon at the moment that we're
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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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