George Pope wrote:
>  PL> >  GP> Vanity means "nothingness" -- I
wouldn't say it's nothing --

> My statement had to do with the root and original meaning, which sense
> permeates all the others. . .

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

 >shrug<

Other's mileage may vary.
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