[f. as prec.] The quality or character of being vainglorious.
1542. Udall, Erasm. Apoph., 328. Their facion of makyng oracions was … replenyshed with vauntyng … & vaingloriousnesse.
1577. Test. 12 Patriarchs (1706), 25. The spirit of lying or vain-gloriousness in boasting a mans self, and in desire to fill his talk concerning his kindred and acquaintance.
1581. Pettie, Guazzo’s Civ. Conv., I. (1586), 46 b. By yt meanes you see that one offendeth by arrogancie, another by obstinacie,… another by vaingloriousnesse.
1832. L. Hunt, Sir R. Esher (1850), 134. An amor patriæ above all our vaingloriousness.
1844. Thackeray, Barry Lyndon, v. Led away by the vaingloriousness of youth … I invented a thousand stories.
1886. Tupper, My Life as Author, 355. He had repented of the vaingloriousness of those herald angels and their dome.
