English Dictionary

vainglory

名詞

可算名詞 不可算名詞

Excessive vanity. / Boastful, unwarranted pride in one's accomplishments or qualities. / Vain, ostentatious display. / A regarding of oneself with undue favor.

日本語の意味

過度の虚栄心（過剰な自己への賛美や誇示） / 根拠のない自尊心や自慢 / 虚飾的で見栄を張る態度

Her constant boasting was driven not by achievement but by vainglory.

彼女の絶え間ない自慢は成果によるものではなく、虚栄心から生じていた。

意味（1）

Excessive vanity.

意味（2）

Boastful, unwarranted pride in one's accomplishments or qualities.

Then he reasoned, as he had in the days past, that the course of human history had shown national pride—the inflexible kind—to be mankind’s worst enemy, and ordinary people paid the price in suffering. Nations had gone down because of vainglory, when moderation might have civilized and saved them.

意味（3）

Vain, ostentatious display.

The pew would soon want new flooring, Mr. Dangerfield thought, and the Castlemallard arms and supporters, a rather dingy piece of vainglory, overhanging the main seat on the wall, would be nothing the worse of a little fresh gilding and paint.

意味（4）

A regarding of oneself with undue favor.

vainglories （ plural ）