"overween" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From Middle English overwēnen (“to be presumptuous, be over-confident; presume”), from Old English oferwennan and oferwenian (“to be proud, become insolent, or presumptuous”), equivalent to over- + ween.",
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          "ref": "1644, Milton, Sonnet IX",
          "text": "and they that overween, / And at thy growing virtues fret their spleen,",
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          "ref": "2005, A. J. Liebling, Just Enough Liebling: Classic Work by the Legendary New Yorker Writer, page 327",
          "text": "The clouds on Futurity Day bore out in a general way this prognostication. But he overweened himself.",
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        "To think too highly or arrogantly of (oneself)."
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        "(ergative) To think too highly or arrogantly of (oneself)."
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          "ref": "1987 October, Field & Stream, volume 92, number 6, page 24",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "2009, Ariel Dorfman, The Empire's Old Clothes: What the Lone Ranger, Babar, and Other Innocent Heroes Do to Our Minds, page 6",
          "text": "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.",
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        "To overwhelm."
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        "(proscribed) To overwhelm."
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        "To overwhelm."
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        "(proscribed) To overwhelm."
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