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- noun Plural form of
vanity .
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Examples
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O ye who believe! eat not up your property among yourselves in vanities: but let there be amongst you traffic and trade by mutual good-will: nor kill (or destroy) yourselves (commit suicide): for verily Allah hath been to you Most Merciful.
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The spirit that was dissipated after a thousand vanities is now collected and made to centre in God.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon) 1721
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In the absence of such action a bonfire of the vanities is the only solution.
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The ones shown in the images are Gray Oak and Teak, but the vanities are also available in Glossy White, and Wenge.
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So I have departed from the teachings of my childhood and turned to the so-called vanities of the world.
Patchwork A Story of 'The Plain People' Anna Balmer Myers
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The only thing recalling the vanities of the world was a mirror let into the panel above the praying-stool.
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And then I thought of that other noble tower of needless things that stood in the field beyond my garden; the bonfire, the mountain of vanities, that is meant for burning; and how it stood dark and lonely in the meadow, and the birds hopped on its corners and the dew touched and spangled its twigs.
A Miscellany of Men 1905
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One of her vanities was her small feet, on which she always wore the daintiest of shoes, often totally unsuited to the occasion.
The Life of Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson Nellie Van de Grift Sanchez 1895
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The glass likewise of vanities, which is thine only joy,
A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 6 William Carew Hazlitt 1873
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Their idols are called their vanities, for they cannot profit nor help.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume II (Joshua to Esther) 1721
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