单词 | overween |
释义 | † overweenn. Obsolete. rare. Overweening; presumption. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pride > overweening or presumption > [noun] presumptiona1250 overweena1300 jollitya1340 overweening1340 overhopec1390 surfeitryc1425 presumptuousnessa1450 outrecuidance?c1450 sauciness1534 presumptiousness1550 presume1590 confidence1597 assuming1602 self-assumption1609 overweeningness1621 self-assuming1644 assumingnessa1832 assumptiousness1870 hubris1884 hybris1920 a1300 (c1275) Physiologus (1991) 216 Ðerðurȝ haueð mankin Boðen nið & win..Pride & ouerwene. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online December 2020). overweenv. 1. intransitive. To have excessively or unreasonably high expectations; to be conceited, arrogant, or presumptuous; to be too self-confident. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pride > overweening or presumption > be or become presumptuous [verb (intransitive)] overween1340 to take on (also upon) one(self)?1435 presumea1450 1340 Ayenbite (1866) 22 (MED) Þet is þe wone of þe proude: ouerwene þet him ne is naȝt ynoȝ to onworþi ine his herte þe oþre. a1400 (c1303) R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne (Harl.) 5164 Holde þe euene hem betwene, Nat Ouer-drede ne ouer-wene. ?1533 G. Du Wes Introductorie for to lerne Frenche sig. Jiii To ouer wene, surcuider. 1587 T. Churchyard Worthines of Wales sig. H2 But woe is me the while, that ouerweenes in want, When world may at my boldnes smile, to see my skill so scant. 1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 iv. i. 147 Mowbray, you ouerweene to take it so. View more context for this quotation 1642 J. Milton Apol. Smectymnuus 46 Is there cause why these men should overween, and be so queasie of the rude multitude, lest their deepe worth should be undervalu'd for want of fit umpires? 1702 Eng. Theophrastus 192 We all of us naturally overwean in our own favour. 1857 J. A. Heraud Judgem. of Flood (rev. ed.) iv. x. i. 289 Yet overween ye not—nor let the pride Of man rebel: For God is jealous. 1866 J. B. Rose tr. Ovid Fasti 156 Happiest of mothers Niobe had been Had happiness not caused her to o'erween. 1977 Times 10 Oct. 10/6 [An] ego-deflater when ego threatened to overween. 1992 Financial Times (Nexis) 5 June 17 His reactions are never gross, nor seriously choleric; neither does he overween or bluster. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > misjudgement > judge wrongly [verb (intransitive)] > overestimate or overstate overween1554 to make a mountain (out) of a molehill1570 1554 [implied in: J. Proctor Hist. Wyates Rebellion f. 46 Suche overweninge had they of them selues. (at overweening n. 2)]. 1605 W. Camden Remaines i. 94 Whatsoever some of their posteritie doe overweene of the antiquitie of their names. 1624 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy (ed. 2) Democritus to Rdr. 8 Some are too partiall, as friends to ouerweene, others come with a preiudice to carpe, vilify, detract and scoffe. a1652 R. Brome Mad Couple Well Match'd i. i. sig. B3, in Five New Playes (1653) You should overweene that I had ability to wrastle any more with your overgratefull Unkle in your behalfe. 3. transitive. To overrate or think too highly of. Also reflexive: to have too high an opinion of oneself. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > misjudgement > misjudge [verb (transitive)] > over-estimate or overvalue to make much (also little, nothing, too much, etc.) of (or on)c1395 to make of (also on)c1449 to make fair weather of1537 over-reckon1537 overmind1571 overween1588 overprize?1589 overcount1593 overvalue1597 overrate1599 wondernize1599 overhold1609 over-cess1611 overweight1613 overthinka1618 over-title1620 overcast1622 overmeasure1625 over-sum1628 overesteema1639 overproportion1642 outbid1688 overcharge1711 overestimate1797 overreach1822 overplay1835 maximize1866 maximate1881 out-reckon1898 fetishize1934 1588 A. Fraunce Lawiers Logike ii. ix. f. 101v The disputers..must [not] overweene themselves, or bee obstinate and singuler in conceipt. 1621 S. Ward Happinesse of Pract. (1627) Ep. Ded. It was a pride in Montanus to ouerweene his Pepuza and Tymium, two pelting Parishes in Phrygia, and to call them Hierusalem. 1674 N. Fairfax Treat. Bulk & Selvedge 10 To make it likely..that the doctrine of atoms is not wound up in those darknesses that some mens understandings have may-hap over-weened. 1994 Independent (Nexis) 25 Nov. 1 I would not be in the least surprised if..[his] arrogance so overweens itself that he decided he would make a better leader of the party than John Major. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pride > overweening or presumption > render overweening [verb (transitive)] overween1616 1616 Greenes Mourning Garment (new ed.) Ded. sig. A3 While wantonnesse..ouer-weaned the Niniuites, their sur-coates of bisse were all polished with gold. 1620 J. Ford Line of Life 99 Iniuries can no more discourage him, then applause can ouer-weene him. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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