aggrandizement

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Maintaining impartial resolve to such discipline allows us to deliver large profits without self-aggrandizement, and engender caution where necessary to stem losses amid situations of challenge.

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  1. The act of aggrandizing; the state of being exalted in power, rank, or honor; exaltation; enlargement: as, the emperor seeks only the aggrandizement of his own family. Also spelled aggrandisement. Survival of the fittest will determine whether such specially favourable conditions result in the aggrandisement of the individual or in the multiplication of the race. H. Spencer, Prin. of Biol., § 359.
  2. Synonyms Augmentation, advancement, elevation; preferment, promotion, exaltation.

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  • But if we build upon “the sands” of fame or self-aggrandizement, and, like the towering oak, lift our insignificant heads in proud defiance of the coming storm, we may expect that our superstruction will fall! —  Twenty-Two Years a Slave, and Forty Years a Freeman
  • In his rage over my refusal to recognize his self-aggrandizement, your forefather plotted to obliterate our nation and to hang me from a tree.
  • Your career has been all about self-aggrandizement, and not about helping your voters, your constituents, or your fellow Americans. —  Life is a State of Mind
  • Lost in the glare of the spotlight of self-aggrandizement is the reality that most crime that is committed in this city is not among their chosen seven classifications. —  Queens Crap
  • Maintaining impartial resolve to such discipline allows us to deliver large profits without self-aggrandizement, and engender caution where necessary to stem losses amid situations of challenge. —  Safehaven
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  1. from F. “aggrandissement, a granting, enlarging, encrease, also preferment, advancement” (Cotgrave), now agrandissement: see aggrandize and -ment.
 

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