conceity

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For "brat" is but the Scots word for apron, and such a brisk conceity saying was like that very spirited lady, Anne Keith.

From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

The man must be cast down in himself, and far from high and conceity thoughts of himself, or of any thing he ever did or can do.

From Christ: The Way, the Truth, and the Life by Brown, John (of Wamphray)

As it is, let them have their conceity illusions.

From Phemie Frost's Experiences by Stephens, Ann S. (Ann Sophia)

He hes bein mighty conceity in pretty mottoes and sayings, wheirof the walls and roofs of all the roumes are filled, stuffed with good moralitie, tho somethat pedantick.

From Publications of the Scottish History Society, Volume 36 Journals of Sir John Lauder Lord Fountainhall with His Observations on Public Affairs and Other Memoranda 1665-1676 by Fountainhall, John Lauder, Lord