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vainglorious, a.|veɪnˈglɔərɪəs|
Also 6–8 vain glorious, 6– vain-glorious.
[f. vainglory n. Cf. med.L. vānaglōriōsus (OF. vana-, vaneglorious), Sp. and It. vanaglorioso, Pg. vanglorioso.]
1. Filled with, given to, indulging in, vainglory; inordinately boastful or proud of one's own abilities, actions, or qualities; excessively and ostentatiously vain.
a. Const. of.
c1480Henryson Fables, Cock & Fox, Nyse proud men, woid and vanegloreous Of kin and blude. 1648Gage West Ind. 160 Being not a little vain glorious of what he had done with me. 1729Law Serious Call xviii. (1732) 330 They think it a part of their duty to be proud, envious, and vain-glorious of their own accomplishments. 1784Cowper Task iii. 715 When he call'd, Vain-glorious of her charms, his Vashti forth To grace the full pavilion.
b. Without const.
c1510More Picus Wks. 6/2 Not the knowlage of the Hebrew, Chaldei, and Arabie language, beside Greke & Latin, could make him vaingloriouse. 1599B. Jonson Ev. Man out of Hum. Char. Pers., A Vaine-glorious Knight, over-Englishing his travels, and wholly consecrated to singularity; the very Jacobs staffe of complement. a1639W. Whately Prototypes i. xi. (1640) 88 Be not vaine⁓glorious, studying to doe some earthly vaine thing, for which you may be talked of farre and neere. 1651Hobbes Leviath. i. xi. 49 Vain-glorious men..delight in supposing themselves gallant men. 1713Young Last Day iii. 79 Look round, vain-glorious muse, and you whoe'er Devote your⁓selves to fame, and think her fair. 1785Grose Dict. Vulgar T., Vain glorious, or ostentatious man, one who boasts without reason. 1813Shelley Q. Mab iii. 139 Where is the fame Which the vainglorious mighty of the earth Seek to eternize? 1840Ainsworth Tower of London (1864) 370 One of the galleries of the palace, where the vain-glorious mannikin was lingering in the hope of being admitted to the royal presence. 1881Tylor Anthropology 384 Even the vainglorious scribes of Egypt would hardly venture to record events without a foundation of fact.
absol.a1553Udall Royster D. Prol., Our Comedie..against the vayne glorious doth inuey. 1596Norden Progr. Pietie (1847) 173 Though it please the vain-glorious for a time it will bring repentance. 1636Featly Clavis Myst. viii. 101 He baiteth the hook..for the vaine-glorious with popularitie. 1850W. Irving Mahomet viii. (1853) 43 For God loveth not the arrogant and vainglorious.
transf. and fig.1602Nixon Chr. Navy B ij, Lofty mindes That in this world doe seeke to glister so, Blowne on this rocke by fond vaine glorious winds, Fall headlong downe. 1619J. Taylor (Water P.) Kicksey Winsey Wks. (1630) 36 Itch'd with the vain-glorious worme, To write and lye.
2. Characterized by, indicative of, or proceeding from vainglory.
1533Gau Richt Vay 4 Sic vane glorious tetels and namis and pouers. 1575Gascoigne Glasse Govt. Wks. 1910 II. 68 Wandring..in a vayne glorious oppinion of their owne wit. 1603Knolles Hist. Turks (1621) 331 Such stately honours and vaine-glorious praises as he in his life time enioyed. 1662Stillingfl. Orig. Sacræ iii. iv. §11 Whether that bee ground of that vain-glorious boast..I here dispute not. a1700Evelyn Diary 25 Oct. 1667, The Vice-Chancellor's letter..were too vaine glorious to insert. 1791Cowper Odyss. iv. 610 Neptune that speech vain-glorious hearing, grasp'd His trident. 1809W. Irving Knickerb. vi. ix. (1849) 376 Let not my readers imagine..that I am indulging in vainglorious boastings. 1861Sala Dutch Pictures xvi. 243 ‘See Naples and then die,’ is the vain-glorious saying of the Neapolitans. 1896Duke of Argyll Philos. Belief 268 They were the very incarnations of vainglorious pride. |