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conceity, a. Chiefly Sc.|kənˈsiːtɪ| [see -y.] Full of conceit: † ingenious, witty, fantastic (obs.); abounding in conceits, or in self-conceit.
1606W. Birnie Kirkburiall vi. (Jam.), The conceaty resolution of Theodore in answer to the tyrant Lysimachus. 1675J. Durham Ten Commandm. To Rdr. D ij a (Jam.), Overcostly, curious, vain, and conceaty dressing and decking of the body. 1822Galt Steamboat 339 (Jam.) ‘He's..a wee conceity of himsel’. 1868J. H. Stirling in N. Brit. Rev. XLIX. 366 [Browning's] ‘In a Gondola’..is soft and boneless somehow..and, so to speak, conceity. 1873W. Carleton Over the Hills, She was quite conceity. |