vanityless
English edit
Etymology edit
Adjective edit
vanityless
- lacking in vanity; not vain.
- 1887, Henry Strickland Constable, On Certain Hindrances to Wisdom in Statesmanship, page 105:
- Christianity (Christlikeness) means conduct arising from the highest Christian passions or motive forces, that is, from vanityless, ambitionless, unselfish, energetic devotedness of nature...
References edit
- Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.