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Definition: Vainglory |
VaingloryNoun1. Outspoken conceit. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "vainglory" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
Note: Vainglory \Vain`glo"ry\, noun. [Vain glory.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonym: VainglorySynonym: boastfulness (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Pride | Pride; haughtiness; Adjective: high notions, hauteur; vainglory, crest; arrogance; (assumption). |
Vanity | Airs, affected manner, pretensions, mannerism; egotism; priggism, priggishness; coxcombry, gaudery, vainglory, elation; pride; ostentation; assurance. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Vainglory |
| English words defined with "vainglory": Self-glorious ♦ Ventosity. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Vainglory is a squandering. |
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| "Vainglory" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Vainglory" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
vainglory | 8 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "vainglory"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | mburrje (arrogance, bluster, boast, bounce, brag, braggery, bravado, fanfaronade, gasconade, hokum, jactation, jactitation, puff, rodomontade, splurge, swank, talk big, vaunt), kotësi (frivolity, futility, otioseness, otiosity, vanity, wantonness), fryrje (blow, blowing, bounce, bulge, distention, flatulence, flatulency, hot air, inflation, injection, insufflation, puff, puffery, wind). (various references) | |
Arabic | تيه زهو, تيه (arrogance, labyrinth, pride, swagger), عجب (admire, appreciate, commend, elation, enamor, enamour, fall for, marvel, overconfidence, please, pomp, strike, weirdness, wonder, wonderment), خيلاء (pride, snobbery, vainness, vanity). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | суета (amour propre, bustling, vanity), самохвалство (bluster, boast, boastfulness, bounce, brag, braggadocio, braggery, bragging, bull, fanfaronade, jactation, ostentation, rodomontade, splurge, swagger, vaunt), славолюбие (ambition, vanity), тщеславие (vanity). (various references) | |
Czech | zpupnost, chvástavost (rant). (various references) | |
Farsi | فیس , لاف (Boast, Brag, Gash), گزاف (Bombastic, Costly, Exorbitant, Extortionary, Extravagant, High, Immense, Rodomontade, Steep, Stupendous, Tall, Unconscionable), غرور (Assumption, Conceit, Insolence, Pride, Ruffe, Vanity), خودستاءی (Swagger). (various references) | |
French | vanité (vainness, vanity), prétention, orgueil (vainness). (various references) | |
German | prahlerei (boast, boastfulness, boasting, brag, bragging, fanfaronade, grandiloquence, ostentatiousness, panache, pomposity, pretension, rodomontade, showing off, swank, vaporing, vapouring). (various references) | |
Greek | ματαιοδοξία (vaingloriousness, vainness, vanity). (various references) | |
Hebrew | רברב ות (boastfulness, brag, conceit, pride, vainness). (various references) | |
Hungarian | hencegés (bluster, boast, brag, braggart, cracker, magniloquence, rodomontade, show-off, swagger, vaunt). (various references) | |
Italian | vanagloria. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 虚 (vanity), "我独尊 (Holy am I alone, self-conceit). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | きょえい (vanity), ゆいがどくそ" (Holy am I alone, self-conceit). (various references) | |
Manx | boasteilys (boasting, bragging). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | aingloryvay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | vanglória (boast, vanity), vaidade (airs, conceit, concetto, flatulency, flatulent, presumption, pretension, pride, self-conceit, self-importance, vanity, vaunt), presunção (airs, arrogance, assumption, assurance, conceit, concetto, coxcombry, daring, immodesty, inflation beyond control, Prague, presumption, pretension, puppyism, self sufficiency, self-assurance, self-conceit, self-importance, self-support, surmise, swagger, swank, vanity), orgulho (bounce, haughtiness, lordly, moribund, pride, self-conceit), jactância (huff, ostentation, rodomontade, swagger, vaunt). (various references) | |
Romanian | vanitate (complacency, conceit, coquettishness, futility, importance, self-importance, vaingloriousness, vanity), trufie (conceit, haughtiness, pride, superciliousness), orgoliu (conceitedness, self-importance, self-pride, vanity), îngâmfare (conceit, false pride, haughtiness, perkiness, presumption, pride, self-conceit, superciliousness, vanity). (various references) | |
Russian | тщеславие (conceit, vanity). (various references) | |
Scottish | uaill (pride, vanity), uaibhreas (pomp, pride), uabhar (insolence, pride), leòm (conceit, pride). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | hvalisavost (boastfulness, rodomontade). (various references) | |
Spanish | vanagloria (conceit). (various references) | |
Swedish | högfärd (conceit, haughtiness, pride). (various references) | |
Turkish | boş gurur. (various references) | |
Ukranian | хвалькуватість, марнота, пиха (arrogance, conceit, crest). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | tính dương dương tự đắc (vaingloriousness). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | gloria, gloriae, gloriam. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Philippians Chapter 2, Verse 3 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Mhden kata eriqeian h kenodoxian alla th tapeinofrosunh allhlouV hgoumenoi uperecontaV eautwn |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Nihil per contentionem neque per inanem gloriam sed in humilitate superiores sibi invicem arbitrantes |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | No thing bi strijf, nether by veyn glorie, but in mekenesse, demynge eche othere to be heiyer than hym silf; |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | That nothinge be done thorow stryfe or vayne glory but that in mekenes of mynde every man esteme other better then him selfe |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Let nothing be done through strife or vain glory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Doing nothing through envy or through pride, but with low thoughts of self let everyone take others to be better than himself; |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Philippians Chapter 2, Verse 3 |
| Bulgarian | и всеки език да изповяда, че Исус Христос е "оспод, за слава на Бога Отца. |
| Cebuano | Ayaw na kamo pagbuhat ug bisan unsa sa tuyo sa pagbahinbahin o sa kawang pagpagarbo sa kaugalingon, hinonoa uban sa pagpaubos isipa ang uban ingon nga labi pang maayo kay sa inyong kaugalingon; |
| Chinese | 凡 事 不 可 結 黨 、 不 可 貪 圖 虛 浮 的 榮 耀 ． 只 要 存 心 謙 卑 、 各 人 看 別 人 " 自 己 強 。 |
| Croatian | nikakvo suparništvo ni umišljenost, nego - u poniznosti jedni druge smatrajte višima od sebe; |
| Danish | intet gøre af Egennytte eller Lyst til tom Ære, men i Ydmyghed agte hverandre højere end eder selv |
| Dutch | Doet geen ding door twisting of ijdele eer, maar door ootmoedigheid achte de een den ander uitnemender dan zichzelven. |
| Finnish | ettekä tee mitään itsekkyydestä tai turhan kunnian pyynnöstä, vaan että nöyryydessä pidätte toista parempana kuin itseänne |
| French | Ne faites rien par esprit de parti ou par vaine gloire, mais que l`humilité vous fasse regarder les autres comme étant au-dessus de vous-mêmes. |
| German | Nichts tut durch Zank oder eitle Ehre; sondern durch Demut achte einer den andern höher denn sich selbst, |
| Haitian Creole | Pa fè anyen nan lide pou fè tèt nou pase pou pi bon, ni pou fè lwanj tèt nou. Men, soumèt nou devan Bondye. Mete nan tèt nou lòt yo pi bon pase nou. |
| Hungarian | Semmit nem cselekedvén versengésbõl, sem hiábavaló dicsõségbõl, hanem alázatosan egymást különbeknek tartván ti magatoknál. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Janganlah melakukan sesuatu karena didorong kepentingan diri sendiri, atau untuk menyombongkan diri. Sebaliknya hendaklah kalian masing-masing dengan rendah hati menganggap orang lain lebih baik dari diri sendiri. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Satu pun jangan dilakukan dengan berlawan-lawanan atau dengan sombong, melainkan dengan rendah hati, masing-masing menyangkakan orang lain ada lebih daripada dirinya sendiri. |
| Italian | Non fate nulla per spirito di rivalit o per vanagloria, ma ciascuno di voi, con tutta umilt , consideri gli altri superiori a se stesso, |
| Korean | 아 무 일 에 " 지 다 툼 이 나 허 영 으 로 하 지 말 오 직 겸 손 한 마 음 으 로 각 각 자 기 보 다 남 을 낫 게 여 기 |
| Latvian | Nedariet neko íildas vai tukða goda dçï, bet pazemîbâ viens otru uzskatiet augstâku par sevi! |
| Maori | Kei meinga tetahi mea i runga i te wehewehe, i te whakapehapeha ranei, engari i runga i te ngakau papaku, me te whakanui a tetahi i tetahi ki runga ake i a ia; |
| Norwegian | ikke gjør noget av trettesyke eller lyst til tom ære, men i ydmykhet akter hverandre høiere enn eder selv, |
| Portuguese | nada façais por contenda ou por vanglória, mas com humildade cada um considere os outros superiores a si mesmo; |
| Rumanian | Nu faceyi nimic din duh de ceartq sau din slavq dewartq; ci kn smerenie fiecare sq priveascq pe altul mai pe sus de el knsuw. |
| Shuar | Atum wakeramuk Túrawairap. Nankaamantu ajastaj Tíirap. Antsu péejchach ajasrum Chíkich shuar atumjai nankaamas pénker Enentáimtusta. |
| Spanish | No hagáis nada por rivalidad ni por vanagloria, sino estimad humildemente a los demás como superiores a vosotros mismos; |
| Swedish | fria ifrån genstridighet och ifrån begär efter fåfänglig ära. Fasthellre må var och en i ödmjukhet akta den andre förmer än sig själv. |
| Thai | อย่าทำสิ่งใ"ในทางทุ่มเถียงกันหรืออว""ี แต่จงมีใจถ่อมถือว่าคนอื่น"ีกว่าตัว |
| Ukrainian | Не робіть нічого підступом або з чванливости, але в покорі майте один одного за більшого від себе. |
| Uma | Neo' mpomobohe woto-ni moto-wadi, neo' mpope'une'. Agina-pi-hana hore-hore mpakadingki' nono, ta'uli' doo melabi ngkai kita'. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Words rhyming with "vainglory" (pronounced 'Vain`glo"ry'): Almry, Avowry, Aweary, Balloonry, Barry, Bawdry, Blurry, Chantry, Charry, Cheerry, Chowry, Commandry, Comminatory, Consuetudinary, Consulary, Coquetry, Cowries, Cowry, Cymry, Dairy, Disglory, Dismarry, Dowry, Farry, Firry, Forwweary, foundry, Frory, furry, Gharry, hagberry, Henry, Hostry, intermarry, Intervary, Jerry, Jewry, Kimry, Knarry, Knurry, Lampoonry, Lardry, Larry, Lary, Lepry, lory, Lowry, Lurry, merry, miscarry, Murry, Outweary, Overcarry, Overwary, overweary, Peltry, Querry, Recarry, remarry, Rory, Saltatory, saury, Serry, sherry, Skerry, Skurry, sorry, Sory, Sparry, Spurry, starry, Terry, Unmarry, unwary, unweary, Urry, vagary, Vintry, Whirry, Whurry. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-g-i-l-n-o-r-v-y" | |
-1 letter: ravingly, rovingly. | |
-2 letters: angrily, olivary, varying. | |
-3 letters: gainly, glairy, gloria, gnarly, gorily, grainy, laving, laying, loving, oaring, ogival, onagri, orangy, origan, raving, raying, roving, vainly, virago, voling. | |
-4 letters: agony, algin, algor, align, aloin, along, angry, anvil, argil, argol, argon, avion, gaily, garni, girly, giron, glair, glary, glory, gnarl, gonia, goral, grail, grain, gravy, groan, groin, gyral, gyron, inlay, invar, irony, ivory, largo, liang, ligan, linga, lingo, lingy, logan, logia, loran, lying, nival, noily, noria, orang, organ, ovary, rainy, rangy, ravin, rayon, rival, riyal, roily, royal, valor, vigor, vinal, vinyl, viola, viral, virga, voila, volar, vying, yogin. | |
-5 letters: agin, agio, agly, agon, airn, airy, anil, aril, arvo, aryl, ayin, gain, gaol, girl, girn, giro, glia, gnar, goal, gory, gran, gray, grin, gyri, gyro, inly, inro, iron, lain, lair, lang, lari, liar, ling, lino, liny, lion, lira, loan, logy, loin, long, lorn, lory, nail, naoi, nary, navy, noil, noir, nori, nova, oily, only, oral, orgy, oval, ragi, rail, rain, rang, rani, rial, ring, roan, roil, vagi, vail, vain, vair, vang, vary, vial, viga, vina, vino, viny, viol, virl, yagi, yang, yarn, yoga, yogi, yoni. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-g-i-l-n-o-r-v-y" | |
+1 letter: overlaying. | |
+2 letters: approvingly, overplaying. | |
+4 letters: originatively, overanalyzing, overbearingly. | |
+5 letters: disapprovingly, invigoratingly, vaingloriously. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)56 61 69 6E 67 6C 6F 72 79 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010110 01100001 01101001 01101110 01100111 01101100 01101111 01110010 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)V a i n g l o r y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0056 0061 0069 006E 0067 006C 006F 0072 0079 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)566775807378818491 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Translations: Ancient 10. Bible Trace 11. Rhymes 12. Anagrams | 13. Orthography 14. Bibliography |
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