Meanings of own aggrandizement in English

His mainspring of action is not the welfare of Genoa, but his own aggrandizement.

Each court seemed only to think of its own aggrandizement.

I made myself her champion, to fight for her freedom, not my own aggrandizement.

The Emperor had simply recognized this truth, and utilized it-forhis own aggrandizement, of course.

As the writing saith, he hath the destruction of the state in mind, and his own aggrandizement.

I sought my own aggrandizement-andto have achieved that I would have destroyed thee and placed him upon the throne.

You think I came here to pry into your affairs-toturn our friendship into a means for my own aggrandizement?

Weary of the conflict of arms, they were engaged in the more harmless squabbles of intrigue, each seeking its own aggrandizement.

An ambitious man might make his own aggrandizement, by the aid of a foreign power, the price of his treachery to his constituents.

Three rivals now held divided sway in the Roman State; each of them jealous of the other two, and anxious for his own aggrandizement.

He usurped the throne, then went on to betray his benefactors, his friends and finally his country, exploiting all its resources for his own aggrandizement.

Toward his father, whose life and station he valued only as a means to his own aggrandizement, he displayed not the slightest respect or feeling.