The act of increasing the wealth or prestige or power or scope of something.
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State resources are misappropriated for the personal aggrandisement of the political elites.
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On the contrary, the principal aim of the French cabinet was aggrandisement.
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See how they have fought for the aggrandisement of their own order.
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Every baron fought for his own land and for his own aggrandisement.
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As ambitious, rapacious, eager for nothing but military glory and territorial aggrandisement.
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The great aim of politicians in France to-day is the aggrandisement of themselves.
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In self-defence, for security rather than aggrandisement, the frontier must be pushed back.
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The man who aims at his own aggrandisement underrates everything else.
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Literature was with them a relaxation, and served no purpose of worldly aggrandisement.
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Under Frederick the Great, Prussia's career of conquest and aggrandisement continued.
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You will bid me remember my rank-mybirth-myfather-schemes of aggrandisement.
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She was working and planning again for Maurice's happiness and aggrandisement.
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It has been England's eternal policy to damage us for her own aggrandisement.
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Every self-observer has detected within himself mental weakness coincident with aggrandisement.
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Look at society-lookat politics-lookat commerce-all mere schemes for self-aggrandisement!
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The best way to guard against self-aggrandisement or self-abnegation is to focus on evidence.
