LekhoriLekhoriUnduly confident; 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
From Middle English overweninge, equivalent to overween + -ing. Cognate with obsolete Dutch overwanig, overwaand (“presumptuous; cocky; conceited”).
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