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
Mr. Gates was the only genius fit to conduct the war; and with a vaingloriousness, which he afterwards generously owned, he did not refuse the homage which was paid him.
From The Virginians by William Makepeace Thackeray
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 Martin Farquhar Tupper
