vainglorious
adjective
filled with or given to vainglory.
vaingloriousness
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a word derived from
vainglorious.
Example Sentences
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Dim moon-eyed fishes near Gaze at the gilded gear, And query, "What does this vaingloriousness down here?"
From Time Magazine Archive
There is always an anxiety, a fervour, an impatience, a vaingloriousness attending it which untranquillizes even in the sweetest-seeming moods of the poet.
From Life and Remains of John Clare "The Northamptonshire Peasant Poet" by J. L. Cherry
Now I allow you to laugh at my vaingloriousness, and then you may pin it to Mrs. Best's satisfaction in the dedication to Dowager Majesty.
From The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2) by Sir Frederic G. (Frederic George) Kenyon
His vaingloriousness was shown by his habit of having his coat of arms placed on bells, ikonostasi,* and windows of the churches he built.
From Russian Rambles by Isabel Florence Hapgood
He had all the vaingloriousness of exuberant vitality, and was animated in the recital of his own adventures.
From Daniel Defoe by William Minto
