the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
adj. Feeling or indicating vainglory; elated by vanity; boastful.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Filled with vainglory; glorying in excess of one's own achievements; extravagantly elated; boastful; vaunting.
Indicating or proceeding from vainglory; founded on excessive vanity; boastful.
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adj. feeling self-importance
Word Usage
"Some have suggested that it refers to vainglorious rulers like Antiochus Epiphanes who attempted to deify themselves, or to Emperor Titus, who destroyed the temple and much of Jerusalem in A.D."