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 George Haven Putnam
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
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
Oh, father," urged they, "savoureth not this of vaingloriousness?
From The Twilight of the Gods, and Other Tales by Richard Garnett
