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VAINGLORIOUS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does vainglorious mean?
• VAINGLORIOUS (adjective)
The adjective VAINGLORIOUS has 1 sense:
1. feeling self-importance
Familiarity information: VAINGLORIOUS used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Feeling self-importance
Synonyms:
Context example:
he was swelled with pride
Similar:
proud (feeling self-respect or pleasure in something by which you measure your self-worth; or being a reason for pride)
Derivation:
vainglory (outspoken conceit)
Context examples
He was silent for a minute, casting about for the least vainglorious way in which to express himself.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
And at the very moment of that vainglorious thought, a qualm came over me, a horrid nausea and the most deadly shuddering.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
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