Editing Seven deadly sins (section)

=== Vainglory ===
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''Vainglory'' is unjustified boasting. Pope Gregory viewed it as a form of pride, so he merged vainglory into pride in his list of sins.<ref name="DelCogliano-2014"/> Vainglory is the progenitor of [[envy]].<ref name="books.google.com"/>

Professor Kevin M. Clarke observes that vainglory is technically different from pride: vainglory is “when we seek human acclaim”, while pride is “taking spiritual credit for what I’ve done, instead of ascribing one’s good deeds to God.”{{sfn|Clarke|2018|p=163}}

The Latin term {{lang|la|gloria}} roughly means 'boasting', although its English cognate ''glory'' has come to have an exclusively positive meaning. Historically, the term ''vain'' meant roughly 'futile' (a meaning retained in the modern expression ''in vain''); but by the fourteenth century, ''vain'' had come to have the strong [[Narcissism|narcissistic]] undertones that it retains today.<ref>''Oxford English dictionary''</ref>