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vainglory

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1. vainglory - Noun

2. vainglory - Verb

Meaning

Excessive vanity excited by one's own performances; empty pride; undue elation of mind; vain show; boastfulness.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Detail of Pride from The Seven Deadly Sins and the Four Last Things by Hieronymous Bosch, c. 1500 Vainglory main Vainglory (Latin, vanagloria main) is unjustified boasting. Source: Internet

Elizabeth had good reason not to place too much trust in her commanders, who once in action tended, as she put it herself, "to be transported with an haviour of vainglory". Source: Internet

Trump’s clinical narcissism and vainglory wants to promote the image of the great leader — infallible, powerful and solely capable of saving the nation from terrible threats real, imagined or exaggerated. Source: Internet

Which advice when the Apostle had given, he immediately joined to it the example of our Lord Himself; “Doing nothing,” saith he, “through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind, each esteeming the other better than themselves. Source: Internet

Oxford English dictionary As a result of these semantic changes, vainglory has become a rarely used word in itself, and is now commonly interpreted as referring to vanity (in its modern narcissistic sense). Source: Internet

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