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Use "vaingloriousness" in a sentence
"The sinking of the Titanic was a truly terrible combination of vaingloriousness and happenstance."
"Lundberg noted the "slavocracy was not terminated .... for moral reasons; it committed suicide for political and economic reasons, blinded by simple greed and vaingloriousness, and long after slavery was abolished in most places elsewhere.""
"Mr. Gates was the only genius fit to conduct the war; and with a vaingloriousness, which he afterwards generously owned, he did not refuse the homage which was paid him."