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Meanings of aggrandisement in English

Portuguese
engrandecimento
Catalan
ascens
Spanish
ascenso

The act of increasing the wealth or prestige or power or scope of something.

        engrandecimento
        Usage of aggrandisement in English
        1
        State resources are misappropriated for the personal aggrandisement of the political elites.
        The South African
        2
        On the contrary, the principal aim of the French cabinet was aggrandisement.
        The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. / From the Acc...
        3
        See how they have fought for the aggrandisement of their own order.
        Erewhon Revisited Twenty Years Later, Both by the Original Disco...
        4
        Every baron fought for his own land and for his own aggrandisement.
        With the British Army in The Holy Land
        5
        As ambitious, rapacious, eager for nothing but military glory and territorial aggrandisement.
        Correspondence & Conversations of Alexis de Tocqueville with Nas...
        6
        The great aim of politicians in France to-day is the aggrandisement of themselves.
        The Slave of the Lamp
        7
        In self-defence, for security rather than aggrandisement, the frontier must be pushed back.
        Lectures on Modern history
        8
        The man who aims at his own aggrandisement underrates everything else.
        Sadhana : the realisation of life
        9
        Literature was with them a relaxation, and served no purpose of worldly aggrandisement.
        The History of Roman Literature / From the Earliest Period to th...
        10
        Under Frederick the Great, Prussia's career of conquest and aggrandisement continued.
        The War and Democracy
        11
        You will bid me remember my rank-mybirth-myfather-schemes of aggrandisement.
        Love and Intrigue: A Tragedy
        12
        She was working and planning again for Maurice's happiness and aggrandisement.
        Vera Nevill / Or, Poor Wisdom's Chance
        13
        It has been England's eternal policy to damage us for her own aggrandisement.
        The Coming Conquest of England
        14
        Every self-observer has detected within himself mental weakness coincident with aggrandisement.
        The Man Who Laughs: A Romance of English History
        15
        Look at society-lookat politics-lookat commerce-all mere schemes for self-aggrandisement!
        The Life Everlasting: A Reality of Romance
        16
        The best way to guard against self-aggrandisement or self-abnegation is to focus on evidence.
        The Guardian
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        Spanish
        ascenso
        Aggrandisement through the time
        Aggrandisement across language varieties
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