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
She could not help holding herself with dignity, if not with a trifle of vaingloriousness, as, between half-a-dozen eager hands and admiring eyes, she stepped down into it.
From Sisters by Ada Cambridge
With this was united a tendency at times to oscillate to the other extreme of vaingloriousness.
From Great Italian and French Composers by George T. (George Titus) Ferris
Oh, father," urged they, "savoureth not this of vaingloriousness?
From The Twilight of the Gods, and Other Tales by Richard Garnett
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
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