GP>  PL>
 PL> Your statement used the present tense verb "means", and (IMO) thus
 PL> made
 PL> no reference to its root [Middle English vanite, from Old French, from
 GP>  PL>
 PL> Latin vnits, from vnus, empty. See eu- in Indo-European Roots.]".

 GP> Of course, even your posted dictionary definition included that it
 GP> "means" emptiness. . . :) (that was the sense I was referring to,
 GP> including the idea that that is the root meaning for all the
 GP> subdefinitions)


What confuses no... confused me at first was that to the vain person
vanity is everything, it's to everybody ELSE it's nothing! :)


Yes?

Cindy

... Forget all your troubles. Wear tight shoes.

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