Detail of Pride through the Seven Deadly Sins while the Four final Things by Hieronymous Bosch, c. 1500 Vainglory/Vanity Vainglory (Latin, vanagloria) is unjustified boasting. Pope Gregory viewed it as a kind of pride, so he folded vainglory into pride for their set of sins. In accordance with Thomas Aquinas, it’s the progenitor of envy. The term that is latin roughly means boasting, although its English cognate – glory – has arrived to possess an solely good meaning; historically, the…