Crossword-Solution: VAINGLORY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Vainglory | n. | Excessive vanity excited by one's own performances; empty pride; undue elation of mind; vain show; boastfulness. |
We have 10 clues for the answer “VAINGLORY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Ostentatious pride | 1 answer |
| Outspoken conceit | 1 answer |
| Boastfulness. | 2 answers |
| egotism | 23 answers |
| Ego | 27 answers |
| Egoism | 27 answers |
| Narcissism | 27 answers |
| Vanity | 28 answers |
| Pomp | 32 answers |
| Conceit | 50 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RETEA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with VAINGLORY (5)
CHAPTER IX—THE PRICE OF THE RIVER FARM; IN WHICH VAINGLORY GOES BEFORE A FALL The pistol had been practically fired.
Even a tobacconist may, upon consideration, find no great cause for personal vainglory in the phrase; for although tobacco is an admirable sedative, the qualities necessary for retailing it are neither rare nor precious in themselves.
Then, when Penrod had exhausted himself repeating to nausea accounts of the prowess of himself and his great friend, he would turn to two other subjects for vainglory.
This was the Lord de Vere, who, when at home, was said to spend much of his time in the burial vault of his dead progenitors, rummaging their mouldy coffins in search of all the earthly pride and vainglory that was hidden among bones and dust; so that, besides his own share, he had the collected haughtiness of his whole line of ancestry.
The vanity of possession, the vainglory of power, had passed away by this time, and there remained only the material embarrassments, the fear of losing that position which had turned out not worth having, and an anxiety of thought which no abject subservience of men could repay.
Quotes with VAINGLORY (3)
It is good for us to have trials and troubles at times, for they often remind us that we are on probation and ought not to hope in any worldly thing. It is good for us sometimes to suffer contradiction, to be misjudged by men even though we do well and mean well. These things help us to be humble and shield us from vainglory. When to all outward appearances men give us no credit, when they do not think well of us, then we are more inclined to seek God Who sees our hearts. The…
Vainglory, however, no matter how much medieval Christianity insisted it was a sin, is a motor of mankind, no more eradicable than sex.
When Freemasons vainglory on their deeds during the French Revolution, they forget that many innocents paid with their own life for that, including pregnant women and children from the royal families, and those that have witness it didn't forget, and will likewise turn the karma back on them in the years to come, making their innocents pay for the guilty ones.
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Appears in: Boston Globe.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (2006).