different between vainglory vs boastful

English

Etymology

From Middle English waynglori (“worthless glory”), from Old French vaine glorie, from Medieval Latin v?na gl?ria, from Latin v?na (“empty, groundless, boastful”) + gl?ria (“fame, ambition, boasting”), apparently modelled after similar terms in Germanic languages. Compare Old English ?del wuldor (“vain glory”) and ?del?ielp (“vainglory”).

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: vain?glo?ry

Noun

vainglory (countable and uncountable, plural vainglories)

1. Excessive vanity.
2. Boastful, unwarranted pride in one's accomplishments or qualities.

3. Vain, ostentatious display.
4. A regarding of oneself with undue favor.

Derived terms

• vaingloriness
• vainglorious

Translations

Verb

vainglory (third-person singular simple present vainglories, present participle vainglorying, simple past and past participle vaingloried)

1. (intransitive) To boast; to act in a vain manner.

English

Alternative forms

• boastfull (archaic)

Etymology

From Middle English bostful, equivalent to boast +? -ful.

Pronunciation

Adjective

boastful (comparative more boastful, superlative most boastful)

1. Tending to boast or brag.
   • 1839, Charles Darwin, The Voyage of the Beagle

     It makes one's blood boil, yet heart tremble, to think that we Englishmen and our American descendants, with their boastful cry of liberty, have been and are so guilty

   He wrote a boastful autobiography, recording all his great deeds.

Derived terms

• boastfulness

Translations

See also

• cocky
• proud

Anagrams

• boatfuls, boatsful