| 单词 | vain-talking | 
| 释义 | > as lemmasvain-talking   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. ΚΠ 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. < as lemmas | 
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