Definition of "vainglories" [vainglories]

• Plural form of vainglory. (noun)

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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."
• "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."
• "We are getting up our vainglories again, smoothing our peacock's plumes."