vain-glory

  • 121ídelgielp — n ( es/ ) empty boasting, vain glory, arrogance …

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  • 122Franel, Sabine —    After directing her first documentary (Les Bottes du Défunt), she became an editor (1986 On l appelait le Roi laid, documentary, Claude Weisz; 1988 Os canibais / Les Cannibales / Die Kannibalen / I cannibali / UK and USA: The Cannibals, Manoel …

    Encyclopedia of French film directors

  • 1233. FAMILY OF IMRAN (Ali 'Imran) — In the name of God, the Gracious, the Merciful. 1. Alif, Lam, Meem. 2. God, there is no god but He, the Living, the Eternal. 3. He sent down to you the Book with the Truth, confirming what came before it; and He sent down the Torah and the Gospel …

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  • 124assumption — n. 1. Assuming, taking, taking on, taking up, accepting, becoming responsible for. 2. Assuming, arrogating, usurpation. 3. Presumption, supposition, conjecture, hypothesis, postulate, theory. 4. Haughtiness, loftiness, superciliousness,… …

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  • 125coxcombry — n. Foppishness, vain glory …

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  • 126rodomontade — I. n. Blustering, bluster, boasting, bragging, rant, vain glory, gasconade. II. v. n. Boast, brag, bluster, rant, swagger, gasconade …

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  • 127Ker, Patrick — (f1. 1691)    A Scottish Episcopalian who migrated to London during the reign of Charles II. His publications: An Eleg y on the Deplorable, and Never Enough to Be Lamented Death, of the Illustrious, and Serene Charles the II, 1685. Flosculum… …

    British and Irish poets

  • 128Vainer — Vain Vain, a. [Compar. {Vainer}; superl. {Vainest}.] [F. vain, L. vanus empty, void, vain. Cf. {Vanish}, {Vanity}, {Vaunt} to boast.] [1913 Webster] 1. Having no real substance, value, or importance; empty; void; worthless; unsatisfying. Thy vain …

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