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
He had as little of the insolence and perverseness of Orford as of the petulance and vaingloriousness of Montague.
From The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 5 by Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay
Like other men who have achieved greatness, he was made the target for all manner of abuse, accused of misappropriating the ideas of others, of lying, deceit, and treachery, and of unbounded conceit and vaingloriousness.
From Samuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals In Two Volumes, Volume II by Samuel F. B. (Samuel Finley Breese) Morse
"They will put it all down to vaingloriousness and affectation."
From A Hungarian Nabob by R. Nisbet (Robert Nisbet) Bain
There is always an anxiety, a fervour, an impatience, a vaingloriousness attending it which untranquillizes even in the sweetest-seeming moods of the poet.
From Life and Remains of John Clare "The Northamptonshire Peasant Poet" by J. L. Cherry
