vanityless
English
Etymology
Adjective
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
- James A. H. Murray et al., editors (1884–1928), “Vanityless”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC.