vaingloriousness

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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 was no thought of vaingloriousness or of posing as the victor.

From Abraham Lincoln by Putnam, George Haven

And here, although it savors somewhat of vaingloriousness, I cannot resist the temptation of relating another adventure of the same kind, but in which I showed to greater advantage.

From Peter Ibbetson by Du Maurier, George

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 Kenyon, Frederic G. (Frederic George), Sir

Manifestly he had repented of the vaingloriousness of those herald angels and their dome; and practically took the hint of my dispraise in the adoption of that humbler tombstone.

From My Life as an Author by Tupper, Martin Farquhar