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- noun Plural form of
vainglory .
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Examples
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And you ash-tree a long brother of once called Pierpaolo, a memory is all I have of your vainglories as if at bottom ambition were to cast the last look from the last bridge.
Amelia Rosselli greenintegerblog 2008
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And it happened again with the fall of communism in the final decade of this century -- each time leaving a vacuum that was filled by dangerous and suddenly reawakened nationalism, ravenous to clasp to its collective heart the vainglories of its prideful memories.
Remarks By Vice President On The 50th Anniversary Of Nato ITY National Archives 1999
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We are getting up our vainglories again, smoothing our peacock's plumes.
The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning Browning, Elizabeth B 1898
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If he be a conceited man, full of self-admirations and vainglories, his egotism will disgust and repel.
Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country Alexander Smith 1848
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We are getting up our vainglories again, smoothing our peacock's plumes.
The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1833
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God, than in the pomp and vainglories of this world. "
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