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Victory, with India suppressed by British? Ruddy empty boasting
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vainglory
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Vainglory is the title given to an Old English gnomic or homiletic poem of eighty-four lines, preserved in the Exeter Book . The precise date of composition is unknown, but the fact of its preservation in a late tenth-century manuscript gives us an approximate ...
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Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Vainglory \Vain`glo"ry\, n. [Vain + glory.] Excessive vanity excited by one's own performances; empty pride; undue elation of mind; vain show; boastfulness. He had nothing of vainglory. --Bacon. The man's undone forever; for if Hector break not ...
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n. outspoken conceit [syn: boastfulness ]
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n. 1 Excessive vanity. 2 Boastful, unwarranted pride in one's accomplishments or qualities. 3 Vain, ostentatious display. 4 A regarding of oneself with undue favor
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1200, "worthless glory, undue pomp or show," waynglori , from Old French vaine glorie , from Medieval Latin vana gloria (see vain + glory (n.)).
Usage examples of vainglory.
And though perchance thou doest forbear the very act of some sins, yet hast thou in thyself an habitual disposition to them, but that either through fear, or vainglory, or some such other ambitious foolish respect, thou art restrained.
In other times I should have said it were better that the boy should grow up to till the land, which is assuredly an honourable profession, rather than to become a military adventurer, fighting only for vainglory.
Therefore Matthew unfittingly gives the last place to the temptation to covetousness on the mountain, and the second place to the temptation to vainglory in the Temple, especially since Luke puts them in the reverse order.
Truly, that which he gives out of vainglory, as to minstrels and to followers, in order to have his renown carried about the world, he does sin thereby rather than gives alms.
Cadfael walked alone in a corner of the Kings park and considered the foolishness of mortal vainglory, that was paid for with such a bitter price.
Nor had he changed from the leader who let his personnel proclaim him Emperor--himself reluctantly, less from vainglory than a sense of workmanship, when the legitimate order of succession had dissolved in chaos and every rival claimant was a potential disaster.