KJV Dictionary - vainly
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VAINLY
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.
Definition from Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language, 1828.
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