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vainglory::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | boastfulness |
| Type of | conceit, conceitedness, vanity |
| Derivation | vainglorious |
Examples of vainglory
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Vainglory is also of interest now that he is reunited with Martin Lane.
From the guardian.co.uk
To a utilitarian capital, his monuments brought a twisted vainglory.
From the washingtonpost.com
The document is, however, more than a mere claim to vainglory.
From the economist.com
Israel has approached its jubilee with commendably little vainglory and much uneasy introspection.
From the economist.com
His account blames personal vainglory and tribal divisions for the Catholic disunity in Ireland.
From the en.wikipedia.org
He's set back his party 20 years for his own vainglory.
From the guardian.co.uk
And yet there are lots of reasons to see it as vainglory.
From the economist.com
Pope Gregory viewed it as a form of pride, so he folded vainglory into pride for his listing of sins.
From the en.wikipedia.org
But then Refn would be the first to admit that his strain of obsessive enthusiasm can spill into vainglory.
From the guardian.co.uk
- Boastfulness: outspoken conceit
- (vainglorious) big: feeling self-importance; "too big for his britches"; "had a swelled head"; "he was swelled with pride"
- In conventional parlance, vanity is the excessive belief in one's own abilities or attractiveness to others. Prior to the 14th century it did not have such narcissistic undertones, and merely meant futility. ...
- Vainglory is the title given to an Old English gnomic or homiletic poem of eighty-four lines, preserved in the Exeter Book. The precise date of composition is unknown, but the fact of its preservation in a late tenth-century manuscript gives us an approximate terminus ante quem. ...
- Excessive vanity; Boastful, unwarranted pride in one's accomplishments or qualities; Vain, ostentatious display; A regarding of oneself with undue favor
- (vainglorious) With excessive vanity or unwarranted pride
- (vainglorious) boastfully vain and proud of oneself.
