Psal. cxliv. 4. Deut. xxxii. 21.3. VANITY is taken for mere Nothing, or Emptiness. As, for example, Vanity of vanities, saith the preacher, vanity of vanities, all is vanity: I have seen nothing but Vanity and Vexation of Spirit, in every thing that is done in this World, or under the Sun. Every Man living is but altogether vanity: Universa vanitas, omnis homo vivens. Man is like to vanity, his days are as a shadow that passeth away: Homo vanitati similis factus est; dies ejus sicut umbra prætereunt.
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Vanity (3)
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