How To Use Vainglory In A Sentence
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The language of vainglory, of indignation, pity and revengefulness, optative: but of the desire to know, there is a peculiar expression called interrogative; as, What is it, when shall it, how is it done, and why so?
Leviathan
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But a vain, or perverse desire for renown, which is called vainglory, is wrong; desire of glory becomes perverse,
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
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True revolution is not about glamour, vainglory, or self-promotion.
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Yet nothing hinders this from being directed to the end of another vice, such as vainglory or any other.
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
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Another strand recounts the author's debilitating experiences with the music industry in all its mendacious vainglory.
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[86] Heretofore learning was graced by judicious scholars, but now noble sciences are vilified by base and illiterate scribblers, that either write for vainglory, need, to get money, or as Parasites to flatter and collogue with some great men, they put cut [87] burras, quisquiliasque ineptiasque.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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Yet the book is a heavy volume of historic narcissism - a magnum opus of upper-class vainglory and scrupulous evasion.
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It may be some one of our original stock of sins not yet mortified; or some new sin into which we have recently fallen; or some relaxation of our spiritual life, out of which has arisen, perhaps, one dangerous temptation, such as lukewarmness, selfishness, or vainglory.
Sermons. Volume Third.
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But vainglory seems to have no prominence, neither as a sin, because it is not always a mortal sin, nor considered as an appetible good, since human glory is apparently a frail thing, and is something outside man himself.
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
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Rather, he draws his youthful lusts and his adult vainglory as closely as possible to his identity.
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When probed . . . they show at the bottom of their souls pride and vainglory in their condition of masterdom.
America's First Dynasty
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Joy arising from imagination of a man's own power and ability is that exultation of the mind which is called glorying: which, if grounded upon the experience of his own former actions, is the same with confidence: but if grounded on the flattery of others, or only supposed by himself, for delight in the consequences of it, is called vainglory: which name is properly given; because a well-grounded confidence begetteth attempt; whereas the supposing of power does not, and is therefore rightly called vain.
Leviathan
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And this did he to preserve his lowliness, and to avoid vainglory, which is the fretting moth of all virtues.
The Most Ancient Lives of Saint Patrick Including the Life by Jocelin, Hitherto Unpublished in America, and His Extant Writings
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I always consider that the vulgar aims people pursuit vehemently - property, vainglory and extravagance - are despicable.
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The oil of vainglory feeds the lamp; sinister aims corrupt and flyblow our holy things.
The Lord's Prayer
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At the age of seventeen, brimming with optimism and ruled by vainglory, Victor leaves his native Switzerland to attend college.
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But this belongs to vainglory, which is opposed to magnanimity, as stated above (Q. 131, A. 2).
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
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For Morjin, with all his vainglory and hate, was like a mirror reflecting back at me a shape that I did not want to see.
THE LIGHTSTONE: BOOK ONE, PART TWO OF THE EA CYCLE
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The passion whose violence or continuance maketh madness is either great vainglory, which is commonly called pride and self-conceit, or great dejection of mind.
Leviathan
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If I did not admire these enough, again I cannot forgive myself, but she seemed satisfied with what I did, and she talked on about him, not too loquaciously, but lovingly and lovably as a mother should, and proudly as the mother of such a boy should, though without vainglory; I have forgotten to say that she had a certain distinction of face, and was appropriately dressed in black.
Familiar Spanish Travels
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At the outset, Hobbes’s psychology treated what he called vainglory as a pathological condition based on ignorance of man’s vulnerability, on unjustified confidence.
THE CLOSING OF THE AMERICAN MIND
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It's vainglory and ambition for its own sake; it's hazily theorizing solutions rather than rolling up your sleeves and doing something.
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Yet the book is a heavy volume of historic narcissism - a magnum opus of upper-class vainglory and scrupulous evasion.
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Cassian himself dwells on the horrible liability of the monks to the principal vices which infest human nature — gluttony, uncleanness, avarice, anger, vainglory, pride — above all, that despairing and unaccountable melancholy which they call acedia, and describe as “the demon that walketh in the noonday.”
Gathering Clouds: A Tale of the Days of St. Chrysostom
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So remote is this little place from the stir and bustle of travel, and so destitute of the show and vainglory of this world, that my calesa, as it rattled and jingled along the narrow and ill-paved streets, caused a great sensation; the children shouted and scampered along by its side, admiring its splendid trappings of brass and worsted, and gazing with reverence at the important stranger who came in so gorgeous an equipage.
The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus (Volume II)
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Upon them sat antique pots holding ancient plants nobly maintaining their vainglory and smugness as they grew greedily towards the late summer sunshine.
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She was ambitious to the point of vainglory.
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An added bad intention (such as vainglory) makes an act evil that, in and of itself, can be good (such as almsgiving) (Catechism of the Catholic Church, 1752-1753)
Justification by Faith, or Faith and Works
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He refused to countenance all the signs of worldly glory and churchly vainglory.
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Gregory, however (Moral. xxxi), reckons pride to be the queen of all the vices, and vainglory, which is the immediate offspring of pride, he reckons to be a capital vice: and not without reason.
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
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The first stanza reveals a speaker characterized by vainglory and chivalry at one and the same time.
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It makes me think we are dealing with a vain mendacious man who clung to power as long as he possibly could wrapped in a cloud of vainglory and falsehood, when he should have had the good grace to go quietly long ago.