Vainglorious

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Definition: excessive pride in one’s accomplishments

The root is “vainglory,” which is clearly just a compound word of “vain” and “glory.”

Why I Looked It Up

From The Library:

By 2010, Google had calculated, with vainglorious precision, that 129,864,800 books had been published since Gutenberg.

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In The Swerve: How the World Became Modern, a figure during the Italian Renaissance says:

May I be kept from taking pride in dreams of self-exaltation of vainglory.