vainglory

"But I'm the worst snag that ever either of you struck," he went on in his vainglory.

I believe that he will change the world, and strip it of its vainglory and hypocrisy.

So proud, I fear, that we should end in committing some great folly, or great crime in our conceit and vainglory.

Indeed, I don't know which of the two deserves the palm, either for bravery or vainglory.