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vainˈgloriousness
[f. as prec.]
The quality or character of being vainglorious.
1542Udall Erasm. Apoph. 328 Their facion of makyng oracions was..replenyshed with vauntyng..& vaingloriousnesse. 1577Test. 12 Patriarchs (1706) 25 The spirit of lying or vain-gloriousness in boasting a mans self, and in desire to fill his talk concerning his kindred and acquaintance. 1581G. Pettie Guazzo's Civ. Conv. i. (1586) 46 b, By yt meanes you see that one offendeth by arrogancie, another by obstinacie,..another by vaingloriousnesse. 1832L. Hunt Sir R. Esher (1850) 134 An amor patriæ above all our vain⁓gloriousness. 1844Thackeray Barry Lyndon v, Led away by the vaingloriousness of youth,..I invented a thousand stories. 1886Tupper My Life as Author 355 He had repented of the vaingloriousness of those herald angels and their dome. |