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Vainglory

noun
1.
Outspoken conceit.  Synonym: boastfulness.





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"Vainglory" Quotes from Famous Books



... directed in his will, 1628, that he be buried "without any pomp or vainglory," he probably was protesting the tendency towards elaborate funerals, even in the early days of the Colony. It is not known whether or not his wishes in this respect were carried out; however, he was, no doubt, buried in his garden near his new frame ...
— Domestic Life in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century - Jamestown 350th Anniversary Historical Booklet Number 17 • Annie Lash Jester
... bragging of his own deeds. Nor would any Nation wishing to stand well in its own eyes and in the eyes of the world boast of its own conquests over weaker foes or shout itself hoarse in the exuberance of vainglory. ...
— Successful Recitations • Various


Words linked to "Vainglory" :   vainglorious, conceitedness, conceit, vanity


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