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Meanings of vainglory in английском
Synonyms
Examples for "boastfulness"
Examples for "boastfulness"
1
But Theodora, in the boastfulness of her new lungs, yelled uninterruptedly on.
2
The boy talked brightly, and his air of boastfulness fell from him.
3
I accept your reproof, child, for boastfulness is hateful in a warrior.
4
Instantly his attitude of good-natured bantering and pompous boastfulness dropped from him.
5
Totty remonstrated with him: he laughed, and drank on out of boastfulness.
Usage of vainglory in английском
1
The third faction against our Mother Tongue springs from greed of vainglory.
2
What you tell me will confound the vainglory of our modern sceptics.
3
Therefore eccentricity should not be specially reckoned as a daughter of vainglory.
4
All his selfrighteousness, his silly conceit and vainglory stood out before him.
5
Steinbock, with Polish vainglory, wanted to appear familiar with this drawing-room fairy.
6
Is there not excuse in this flattery for just a little vainglory?
7
May not men of genius plume themselves with the vainglory of universality?
8
Think of the twins in the way of vainglory and hypocrisy.
9
Objection 1: It seems that vainglory is not a capital vice.
10
Now vainglory has always been a common poison in the world.
11
He said he saw nothing in it but foolhardiness and vainglory.
12
This was the moment of triumph and vainglory to the coachman.
13
Therefore it seems that they are not the daughters of vainglory.
14
Objection 1: It would seem that discord is not a daughter of vainglory.
15
Objection 1: It would seem that contention is not a daughter of vainglory.
16
Now pride and vainglory are opposed to the virtue of humility.
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Translations for vainglory
португальский
каталонский
испанский
Vainglory through the time
Vainglory across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common