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

The little selfish vaingloriousness of the moment is so readily pardoned, while the truffle is on your fork, or the ruby claret half way to your lips.

From Luttrell Of Arran Complete by Lever, Charles James

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

With this was united a tendency at times to oscillate to the other extreme of vaingloriousness.

From Great Italian and French Composers by Ferris, George T. (George Titus)