overweening

It may have been Milburgh's overweening faith in his own genius.

And have you, young lady, any of that overweening prejudice in favour of your own island?

His overweening conduct gradually made his position at Berlin untenable.

I have been,' said James Dutton to me at the last interview I had with him, 'all my life an overweening self-confident fool.

The Hanseatic League had long been offended at their overweening pride; and it now left them and removed its factory to Antwerp.