Crossword clues for vanities
vanities
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Vanity \Van"i*ty\, n.; pl. Vanities. [OE. vanite, vanit['e], L. vanitas, fr. vanus empty, vain. See Vain.]
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The quality or state of being vain; want of substance to satisfy desire; emptiness; unsubstantialness; unrealness; falsity.
Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.
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Here I may well show the vanity of that which is reported in the story of Walsingham.
--Sir J. Davies.2. An inflation of mind upon slight grounds; empty pride inspired by an overweening conceit of one's personal attainments or decorations; an excessive desire for notice or approval; pride; ostentation; conceit.
The exquisitely sensitive vanity of Garrick was galled.
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That which is vain; anything empty, visionary, unreal, or unsubstantial; fruitless desire or effort; trifling labor productive of no good; empty pleasure; vain pursuit; idle show; unsubstantial enjoyment.
Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher.
--Eccl. i. 2.Vanity possesseth many who are desirous to know the certainty of things to come.
--Sir P. Sidney.[Sin] with vanity had filled the works of men.
--Milton.Think not, when woman's transient breath is fled, That all her vanities at once are dead; Succeeding vanities she still regards.
--Pope. One of the established characters in the old moralities and puppet shows. See Morality, n.,
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You . . . take vanity the puppet's part.
--Shak.5. same as dressing table.
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A cabinet built around a bathroom sink, usually with a countertop and sometimes drawers.
Syn: Egotism; pride; emptiness; worthlessness; self-sufficiency. See Egotism, and Pride.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of vanity English)
Wikipedia
Vanities is a comedy-drama stage production written by Jack Heifner. The story centers on the lives and friendship of three Texas cheerleaders starting from high school in 1963, continuing through college as sorority sisters in 1968, and ending with the dissolution of their friendship in 1974 New York as their interests and livelihoods change and they are no longer as compatible with one another as they had been in their school days.
Vanities is a Home Box Office television presentation of the comedy-drama stage production written by Jack Heifner, Vanities.
Usage examples of "vanities".
He who shall wisely inspect the vanities and obscenities of both will find that they are both fabulous.
For as to those who, for the sake of the friendship of this world, are willing to worship vanities, and do not grieve that they are left to their puerile understandings, I think they have been sufficiently answered in these five books.
Moreover, in that third book concerning the select gods, after having exhibited by anticipation as much of the natural theology as he deemed necessary, and when about to commence to speak of the vanities and lying insanities of the civil theology, where he was not only without the guidance of the truth of things, but was also pressed by the authority of tradition, he says: "I will write in this book concerning the public gods of the Roman people, to whom they have dedicated temples, and whom they have conspicuously distinguished by many adornments.
The only reason seems to be, that your wise ancestors have provided, not that many gods should rule you, but that many of such demons as are delighted with those vanities and falsehoods should possess you.
When, therefore, they of Milan had sent to Rome to the prefect of the city, to provide them with a teacher of rhetoric for their city, and to despatch him at the public expense, I made interest through those identical persons, drunk with Manichaean vanities, to be freed from whom I was going away,-neither of us, however, being aware of it,-that Symmachus, the then prefect, having proved me by proposing a subject, would send me.
The very toys of toys, and vanities of vanities, my old mistresses, still enthralled me.
When Michelangelo described to them the Burning of the Vanities that he had witnessed, the hundreds of irreplaceable manuscripts, books, paintings, sculptures that had been destroyed, they were not distressed.
Some orthodox scroll-pounders say we shouldn't have smithies at all-that they're vanities, distracting us from salvation through forgetfulness.
Another extravagance almost unknown elsewhere on the Slope but allowed here because Mount Guenn is a sacred place, certain to cleanse itself of all toys, conceits, and unreverent vanities, if not tomorrow then sometime in the next hundred years.
If pirates have indeed come, such vanities can only lessen our skill at burrowing down.
Some orthodox scroll-pounders say we shouldn’t have smithies at all-that they’re vanities, distracting us from salvation through forgetfulness.