vanitas
a type of still-life painting that flourished in the Netherlands from about 1620 to 1650, conveying a religious message and characterized by objects symbolic of mortality and the meaninglessness of worldly pleasures.
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How to use vanitas in a sentence
Is it possible then that thy name is also vanitas vanitatum, like the other things of this world?
From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan | Helena Pretrovna BlavatskyOf my three frivolous women, another performed the miracle herself, and abandoned freely the service of the great Goddess vanitas.
Vanitas | Vernon LeeOr, is it about a woman who wears her life away in the farce of 'vanitas Vanitatum?'
Discourses of Keidansky | Bernard G. Richardsvanitas vanitatum, et omnia vanitas—Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.
Similis reviviscendi promissa Democrito vanitas, qui non revixit ipse.
The Works of Sir Thomas Browne | Thomas Browne
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