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单词 vain-proud
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vain-proud
In miscellaneous adjectival or adverbial combinations or attributive uses, as vain-averted, vain-boasting, vain-conceited, vain-headed, vain-hearted, vain-proud, vain-spent, vain-talking, adjs.; vain-speaker, vain-struggling.
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1549 H. Latimer 2nd Serm. before Kynges Maiestie 3rd Serm. sig. Eviiiv There be some sclaunderouse people, vaynespeakers,..whych I must nedes speake agaynst.
1562 T. Phaer tr. Virgil Æneid ix. B b iij And furst Eurialus he seeth..Vainstruggling working much.
1562 N. Winȝet Wks. (S.T.S.) II. 28 Wanetalkand men and dissauearis, quha peruertis hail houssis.
1590 C. Marlowe Tamburlaine: 1st Pt. To Rdr. sig. A2 Though (happly) they haue bene of some vaine conceited fondlings greatly gaped at.
1603 N. Breton Dialogue Pithe & Pleasure sig. E4 If you will be vaine-headed, God helpe you, for I cannot.
a1618 J. Sylvester tr. O. de la Nove Profit Imprisonm. 667 in Wks. (1880) II. 61 The..vain-proud state and port, That for the grace of Kings adorns the Courtly sort.
1633 P. Fletcher Purple Island viii. xxii. 112 A vagrant rout..Strow him with vain-spent prayers, and idle layes.
1848 T. A. Buckley tr. Homer Iliad 291 O babbling and vain-boasting Ajax, what hast thou said?
1858 H. Bushnell Serm. for New Life (1861) vi. 79 He drove Lot's family, or his vain-hearted wife, out of the city.
1871 H. King tr. Ovid Metamorphoses vii. 523 Struggling with vain-averted eyes to shun The noontide beams.
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