vaingloriouslyadv.
/(ˌ)veɪnˈɡlɔːrɪəsli/, U.S. /ˌveɪnˈɡlɔriəsli/ In a vainglorious manner.
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the mind > emotion > pride > vainglory > [adverb]
for vaingloryc1380
vaingloriously1542
gloriously1566
self-gratulatingly1835
self-exaltingly1874
1542 T. Elyot Bibliotheca Gloriosus,..renoumed, some tyme in the yll parte, vaynegloriousely, or bostynge hym selfe.
1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Luke iii. f. 31 Leat it therefore no more entre into your hertes to thynke with your selues vaingloriously.
1567 A. Golding tr. Ovid Metamorphosis (new ed.) ix. f. 111 Sure I meene not I To vaunt my selfe vayngloriuslie by telling of a lye.
1623 N. Rogers Strange Vineyard 36 When Nebuchadnezzar vaunted vainegloriously of that great Babel which he had built.
1649 J. Milton Tenure of Kings 38 Which heretofore in the persuance of fame and forren dominion spent it self vain-gloriously abroad.
1702 London Gaz. No. 3808/3 The Ambition of Spain, when it..vain gloriously stiled its Armado Invincible.
1808 G. Edwards Plain Pract. Plan i. 8 A character which France can no more than vain gloriously affect to be.
1824 W. Irving Tales of Traveller I. 207 I cannot tell you how vain-gloriously I walked the streets.
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