vainglorieux

Middle French

Adjective

vainglorieux

vainglorious
- 1581, Jean-Antoine de Baïf, edited by Jean Vignes, Mimes, enseignements et proverbes‎, page 231:
  Ambition vainglorieuse
  Enflant nostre ame vitieuse
  Aux fausses vertus nous conduit.
  Vainglorious ambition
  Inflating our vicious soul
  Leads us to the false virtues.

References

“vainglorieux”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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