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vainglory


  • n  outspoken conceit

  • Such blithe vainglory as this might be fatuous if it were not the utterance of a man who is, in his field, an indisputable genius.
  • Author Sinclair, at a leathery 77, says this in no spirit of vainglory, but in simple wonder that other literary men should have written less.
  • Too late to save himself, Jeremiah realizes how much of his downfall was due to a "black need within me," some inescapable core of evil which led him to seek power and vainglory in .

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