7. PRIDE (Vanity)
Let’s start with “Pride” also known as Vanity.
Definitions: here are the first five in dictionary.com
| 1. | a high or inordinate opinion of one’s own dignity, importance, merit, or superiority, whether as cherished in the mind or as displayed in bearing, conduct, etc. |
| 2. | the state or feeling of being proud. |
| 3. | a becoming or dignified sense of what is due to oneself or one’s position or character; self-respect; self-esteem. |
| 4. | pleasure or satisfaction taken in something done by or belonging to oneself or believed to reflect credit upon oneself: civic pride. |
| 5. | something that causes a person or persons to be proud: His art collection was the pride of the family. |
Synonym: here is the first one listed in dictionary.com
1. Pride, conceit, self-esteem, egotism, vanity, vainglory imply an unduly favorable idea of one’s own appearance, advantages, achievements, etc., and often apply to offensive characteristics. Pride is a lofty and often arrogant assumption of superiority in some respect: Pride must have a fall.
I underlined vanity because throughout this blog I will be interchanging the words vanity and Pride.
Note-words are color coded to the picture layout.
Tomorrow I will go on to define the next deadly sin “Envy”,
