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Meanings of vainglory in English

Portuguese
vanglória
Catalan
vanaglòria
Spanish
fanfarronada

Outspoken conceit.

vanglória
Synonyms
Examples for "boastfulness"
Examples for "boastfulness"
1
But Theodora, in the boastfulness of her new lungs, yelled uninterruptedly on.
New Faces
2
The boy talked brightly, and his air of boastfulness fell from him.
Princess Maritza
3
I accept your reproof, child, for boastfulness is hateful in a warrior.
The Hot Swamp
4
Instantly his attitude of good-natured bantering and pompous boastfulness dropped from him.
Jungle Tales of Tarzan
5
Totty remonstrated with him: he laughed, and drank on out of boastfulness.
Thyrza
Usage of vainglory in English
1
The third faction against our Mother Tongue springs from greed of vainglory.
The Banquet (Il Convito)
2
What you tell me will confound the vainglory of our modern sceptics.
Balthasar and Other Works - 1909
3
Therefore eccentricity should not be specially reckoned as a daughter of vainglory.
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) / Translated by ...
4
All his selfrighteousness, his silly conceit and vainglory stood out before him.
Peter: A Novel of Which He is Not the Hero
5
Steinbock, with Polish vainglory, wanted to appear familiar with this drawing-room fairy.
Poor Relations
6
Is there not excuse in this flattery for just a little vainglory?
The Confessions of a Beachcomber
7
May not men of genius plume themselves with the vainglory of universality?
Literary Character of Men of Genius / Drawn from Their Own Feeli...
8
Think of the twins in the way of vainglory and hypocrisy.
The Right of Way — Volume 04
9
Objection 1: It seems that vainglory is not a capital vice.
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) / Translated by ...
10
Now vainglory has always been a common poison in the world.
Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians
11
He said he saw nothing in it but foolhardiness and vainglory.
Jackanapes, Daddy Darwin's Dovecot and Other Stories
12
This was the moment of triumph and vainglory to the coachman.
The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon
13
Therefore it seems that they are not the daughters of vainglory.
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) / Translated by ...
14
Objection 1: It would seem that discord is not a daughter of vainglory.
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) / Translated by ...
15
Objection 1: It would seem that contention is not a daughter of vainglory.
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) / Translated by ...
16
Now pride and vainglory are opposed to the virtue of humility.
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) / Translated by ...
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Translations for vainglory
Portuguese
vanglória
Vainglory through the time
Vainglory across language varieties
United Kingdom
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