vaingloriousness



ego trip, narcissism, self-admiration, self-content, self-esteem, self-importance, self-respect, self-satisfaction, smugness, vainglory ,

   basilica - cathedral, church house, house of God, meetinghouse, mission ,

   reverting - backing, backsliding, disenchantment, lapse, recidivism, reclamation, regress, regression, rehabilitation, reinstatement, relapse, restitution, restoration, retrogression, return,

   insouciantly - carelessly, dispassionately, gaily, heedlessly, mindlessly, recklessly ,

   tonic spasm - access, apoplexy, arrest, attack, blockade, convulsion, cramp, epilepsy, falling sickness, fit, frenzy, ictus, lockjaw, occlusion, paroxysm,

   shed blood - battle, bleed, bloody, fight, haemorrhage, wage war, war ,

   sizzle - ball the jack, barrel, be livid, be pissed, bluster, boil, boom, bowl along, breeze, breeze along, browned off, brush, burn, buzz, carry on,

   intangible assets - assets, circumstances, funds, intangibles, liquid assets, means, net worth, resources, stock, tangible, wealth ,

   utter threats against - bludgeon, bulldoze, denounce, forebode, intimidate, lour, lower, menace, threaten, warn ,

   stake out - bound, bug, case, circle in, circumscribe, define, delimit, demarcate, determine, enclose, fix, lay off, make a reconnaissance, mark boundaries, mark off,

   pommel - bang, baste, batter, beat, belabour, belt, birch, buffet, cane, cinch, club, cowhide, cudgel, cut, drub,