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Definition of Overweening

Overweening
Overweening O`ver*ween"ing, n. Conceit; arrogance. --Milton.

Meaning of Overweening from wikipedia

- their own superiority the greater. In the Septuagint, the "hubris is overweening pride, superciliousness or arrogance, often resulting in fatal retribution...
- also detected in Oppenheimer something that many others did not, an "overweening ambition", which Groves reckoned would supply the drive necessary to...
- Holocaust denier, describing him as a "dupe of intellectual pride so overweening that he is incapable of making distinctions between totalitarian and...
- his Hebrew subjects, one rooted in a perception that they possessed an overweening influence in Germany, was so strong that it could not be overcome". Cecil...
- extravagance". A film critic for the Los Angeles Times wrote that "Cameron's overweening pride has come close to capsizing this project" and that the film was...
- website's critics consensus reads, "Treating the franchise's past with an overweening reverence while padding out its new cast with cloying sidekicks, this...
- Guide" column for The Village Voice also felt the album was overdone ("overweening", "histrionic overload", "semi-classical ponderousness"), but that it...
- margin notes that appeared to suggest the legitimacy of resistance to overweening rulers, and there was the frequent use of the language of tyrant (a word...
- 2020. Retrieved 6 February 2020. "Autonomy co-founder's lawyers attack 'overweening' US extradition effort". The Guardian. 9 February 2021. "One-time Brexit...
- Cyclopes". Homer had already (Book 6) described the Cyclopes as "men overweening in pride who plundered [their neighbors the Phaeacians] continually"...