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Overseen vs Overween - What's the difference?

overseen | overween |

As verbs the difference between overseen and overween

is that overseen is while overween is (ergative) to think too highly or arrogantly of (oneself).

overseen

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Verb

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    overween

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (ergative) To think too highly or arrogantly of (oneself).
  • * (rfdate), Milton, Sonnet IX :
  • and they that overween , / And at thy growing virtues fret their spleen,
  • * 2005 , A. J. Liebling, published in Just Enough Liebling: Classic Work by the Legendary New Yorker Writer , page 327:
  • The clouds on Futurity Day bore out in a general way this prognostication. But he overweened himself.
  • To make or render arrogant and overweening.
  • * 1987 October, in Field & Stream , volume 92, number 6, page 24:
  • There is, I suppose, the cheap drama of man sticking his nose into an area where it does little good except to expand his already overweened vanity.
  • * 2009 , Ariel Dorfman, The Empire's Old Clothes: What the Lone Ranger, Babar, and Other Innocent Heroes Do to Our Minds , page 6:
  • Sometimes we manage to come up with original ways of viewing a world hardened, stratified, overweened by its own power, a world which believes itself as omnipotent as its technological achievements might seem to imply.
  • (proscribed) To overwhelm.
  • * 2003 , Michael Gelven, What happens to us when we think: transformation and reality , page 44:
  • The invasion of a vast enemy host upon the unprepared is unstoppable; the huge phalanx of tanks overweens our small army of trucks and rifles;

    Derived terms

    * overweening

    References

    * Webster 1913