Vainglorious By Deane Barker • April 11, 2023 • 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. Postscript Added on May 27, 2023 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.