different between hauteur vs conceit

English

Etymology

From French hauteur.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /o??t?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???t??/, /???t??/
• Rhymes: -??(?)
• Homophone: auteur

Noun

hauteur (countable and uncountable, plural hauteurs)

1. Haughtiness or arrogance; loftiness.
   • 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing chapter XII

     “What's happened, young Herring?” I think for a moment he was about to draw himself up with hauteur and say he would prefer, if we didn't mind, not to discuss his private affairs, but when he was half-way up he caught Aunt Dahlia's eye and returned to position one.

   • 1992, Joyce Carol Oates, Black Water, Penguin Books, paperback edition, page 31

     […] as, indeed, a new subject presented itself now, "Here's our turn!" braking the Toyota and turning the wheel sharply without having had time to signal so, close behind them, an angered motorist sounded his horn, but The Senator took no heed: not out of arrogance or hauteur but, simply, because he took no heed.

French

Etymology

haut +? -eur

Pronunciation

• ^{(aspirated h)} IPA^(key): /o.tœ?/
• Rhymes: -œ?
• Homophones: auteur, auteurs, hauteurs

Noun

hauteur f (plural hauteurs)

1. height, altitude

   La hauteur du Mont Everest est de 8.848 mètres.

2. arrogance
3. (geometry) height

   La hauteur d'un parallélogramme est perpendiculaire à sa base.

4. (music) pitch

Derived terms

• à hauteur de
• à la hauteur de
• être à la hauteur
• prendre de la hauteur
• saut en hauteur
• sauteur en hauteur

Related terms

• haut

Further reading

• “hauteur” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Alternative forms

• conceipt (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English conceyte, formed from conceyven by analogy with pairs such as (Modern English) deceive~deceit, receive~receipt etc. Doublet of concept and concetto.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?n?si?t/
• Rhymes: -i?t

Noun

conceit (countable and uncountable, plural conceits)

1. (obsolete) Something conceived in the mind; an idea, a thought. [14th–18th c.]
   • 1611, King James Version, Proverbs 26:12

     a man wise in his own conceit
2. The faculty of conceiving ideas; mental faculty; apprehension.
   • c. 1590, Philip Sidney, The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia

     How often, alas! did her eyes say unto me that they loved! and yet I, not looking for such a matter, had not my conceit open to understand them.

3. Quickness of apprehension; active imagination; lively fancy.
4. (obsolete) Opinion, (neutral) judgment. [14th–18th c.]
5. (now rare, dialectal) Esteem, favourable opinion. [from 15th c.]
   • 1748, Samuel Richardson, Clarissa, Letter 345:

     [G]ive him thy thanks for putting her into conceit with the sex that thou hast given her so much reason to execrate.

6. (countable) A novel or fanciful idea; a whim. [from 16th c.]
   • 1679, John Dryden, The Essay on Satire

     Tasso […] is full of conceits […] which are not only below the dignity of heroic verse but contrary to its nature.

   • 2012, Lauren Elkin, Scott Esposito, The End of Oulipo?: An attempt to exhaust a movement

     The book's main conceit is to make poetry from univocal words (words containing just one vowel) […]

8. (countable, rhetoric, literature) An ingenious expression or metaphorical idea, especially in extended form or used as a literary or rhetorical device. [from 16th c.]

   Coordinate terms: metaphor, simile, concetto
9. (uncountable) Overly high self-esteem; vain pride; hubris. [from 17th c.]
   • 1826, Nathaniel Cotton, Fables

     Plum'd with conceit he calls aloud.

10. Design; pattern.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

conceit (third-person singular simple present conceits, present participle conceiting, simple past and past participle conceited)

1. (obsolete) To form an idea; to think.
   • 1643: John Milton, The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce

     Those whose […] vulgar apprehensions conceit but low of matrimonial purposes.

2. (obsolete, transitive) To conceive.

   • The strong, by conceiting themselves weak, are therebly rendered as inactive […] as if they really were so.

   • 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, V.23:

     That owls and ravens are ominous appearers, and presignifying unlucky events, as Christians yet conceit, was also an augurial conception.

Further reading

• conceit in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• conceit in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• conceit at OneLook Dictionary Search

Middle English

Noun

conceit

1. Alternative form of conceyte