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vainglory
Part of speech: NounExcessive vanity or pride over one's own accomplishments; satisfaction with all that pertains to oneself; vain pomp or show.
Usage examples "vainglory":- You, young men, be sure that you lay aside your haughty looks and vainglory in your victory, and await with humility what the future may bring forth, ever considering what form of retribution Heaven may have in store for us to set off against our present good fortune." - "Plutarch's Lives, Volume I (of 4)", Plutarch.
- And this, too, was vainglory. - "A Child's Book of Saints", William Canton.
- An easy triumph over the South would cause the North great vainglory and the South great humiliation. - "Who Goes There?", Blackwood Ketcham Benson.