VA'INLY, adv. 1. Without effect; to no purpose; ineffectually; in vain.In weak complaints you vainly waste your breath.2. Boastingly; with vaunting; proudly; arrogantly.Humility teaches us not to think vainly nor vauntingly of ourselves.3. Idly; foolishly.Nor vainly hope to be invulnerable.
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