overweening

UK /əʊvəˈwiːnɪŋ/ US /oʊvɚˈwinɪŋ/
adj 2noun 1

Definitions

adj

1

Unduly confident; (sometimes also) arrogant.

She wins one modeling contest in Montana and suddenly she’s overweening.

Heere's an ouer-weening rogue.

2

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.

noun

1

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[…].

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