adv. [f. prec.] In a vainglorious manner.
1545. Elyot, Dict., Gloriosus, renoumed, some tyme in the yll parte, vaynegloriousely [sic], or bostynge hym selfe.
1548. Udall, etc., Erasm. Par. Luke iii. 31. Leat it therefore no more entre into your hertes to thynke with your selues vaingloriously.
1565. Golding, Ovid’s Met., IX. (1593), 211. Sure I meane not I To vant my selfe vaine-gloriouslie by telling of a lye.
1623. N. Rogers, Strange Vineyard, 36. When Nebuchadnezzar vaunted vainegloriously of that great Babel which he had built.
1648. Milton, Tenure Kings, 38. Which heretofore in the persuance of fame and forren dominion spent it self vain-gloriously abroad.
1702. Lond. Gaz., No. 3808/3. The Ambition of Spain, when it … vain gloriously stiled its Armado Invincible.
1808. Edwards, Plain Pract. Plan, i. 8. A character which France can no more than vain gloriously affect to be.
1824. W. Irving, T. Trav., I. 207. I cannot tell you how vain-gloriously I walked the streets.
