Definition of "vaingloriousness" []

• Vainglory (noun)

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• "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."