Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Excessive or unwarranted pride in one's accomplishments or qualities.
- noun Vain, ostentatious display.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Extravagant pride or boastfulness; tendency to exalt one's self or one's own performances unduly; inflated and pretentious vanity; vain pomp or show.
- To indulge in vain boasting.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Excessive vanity excited by one's own performances; empty pride; undue elation of mind; vain show; boastfulness.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Excessive
vanity . - noun Boastful, unwarranted pride in one's accomplishments or qualities.
- noun Vain, ostentatious display.
- noun A regarding of oneself with undue favor
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun outspoken conceit
Etymologies
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Examples
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At the outset, Hobbes’s psychology treated what he called vainglory as a pathological condition based on ignorance of man’s vulnerability, on unjustified confidence.
THE CLOSING OF THE AMERICAN MIND Allan Bloom 2003
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At the outset, Hobbes’s psychology treated what he called vainglory as a pathological condition based on ignorance of man’s vulnerability, on unjustified confidence.
THE CLOSING OF THE AMERICAN MIND Allan Bloom 2003
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The passion whose violence or continuance maketh madness is either great vainglory, which is commonly called pride and self-conceit, or great dejection of mind.
Leviathan 2007
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And this did he to preserve his lowliness, and to avoid vainglory, which is the fretting moth of all virtues.
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But this belongs to vainglory, which is opposed to magnanimity, as stated above (Q. 131, A. 2).
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province Aquinas Thomas
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Gregory, however (Moral. xxxi), reckons pride to be the queen of all the vices, and vainglory, which is the immediate offspring of pride, he reckons to be a capital vice: and not without reason.
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province Aquinas Thomas
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But a vain, or perverse desire for renown, which is called vainglory, is wrong; desire of glory becomes perverse,
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913
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The passion whose violence or continuance maketh madness is either great vainglory, which is commonly called pride and self-conceit, or great dejection of mind.
Leviathan, or, The matter, forme, & power of a common-wealth ecclesiasticall and civill 1651
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An added bad intention (such as vainglory) makes an act evil that, in and of itself, can be good (such as almsgiving) (Catechism of the Catholic Church, 1752-1753)
Justification by Faith, or Faith and Works Belinda 2008
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Yet nothing hinders this from being directed to the end of another vice, such as vainglory or any other.
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province Aquinas Thomas
anhsieh commented on the word vainglory
People don't use this word nearly enough.
March 24, 2010
frogapplause commented on the word vainglory
Don't you just love it when Carly Simon sings "You're So Vainglory"?
March 24, 2010
bilby commented on the word vainglory
I had some beans, they were cows in my coughing
Cows in my coughing
March 24, 2010