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Owl and the Nightingale, The — (ca. 1189–1216) The Owl and the Nightingale is a DEBATE POEM in early MIDDLE ENGLISH, written in a southeastern dialect in 1,794 lines of octosyllabic (eight syllable) couplets. The poem survives in two late 13thcentury manuscripts, but was… … Encyclopedia of medieval literature
ego — [19] Ego is Latin for ‘I’ (and comes in fact from the same Indo European base as produced English I). English originally acquired it in the early 19th century as a philosophical term for the ‘conscious self’, and the more familiar modern uses –… … The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins
conceit — [n] egotism amour propre, arrogance, complacence, complacency, consequence, immodesty, narcissism, outrecuidance, pomposity, pride, self admiration, self exaltation, selfimportance, self love, self regard, smugness, snottiness, stuffiness,… … New thesaurus
ego — [19] Ego is Latin for ‘I’ (and comes in fact from the same Indo European base as produced English I). English originally acquired it in the early 19th century as a philosophical term for the ‘conscious self’, and the more familiar modern uses –… … Word origins

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