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Significados de aggrandisement en inglés

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

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Examples for "elevation"
Examples for "elevation"
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Using power of five hundred-imageperfectly steady even at this low elevation.
The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke
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I'd heard once that elevation was good for injuries that involved swelling.
Notes from the dog
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The general elevation of the country still appeared to be the same.
Journals of Expeditions of Discovery into Central Australia and ...
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The difference is not in elevation or rainfall, but in the soil.
Northern Nut Growers Association Thirty-Fourth Annual Report 194...
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It sometimes ends in uncommon elevation, indeed; but only at the gallows.
Moby-Dick; or, The Whale
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The sole business of Lovat was personal aggrandizement; revenge was his amusement.
Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume II.
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She says it simply, without self-aggrandizement, but with a kind of wonder.
Wastelands
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The conquests of Napoleon were followed by the aggrandizement of his house.
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. / From the Acc...
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Among the Assyrians the national purpose was predominantly one of military aggrandizement.
The Moral Economy
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The lust of Europe for territorial aggrandizement becomes every day more pronounced.
New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 5, ...
Uso de aggrandisement en inglés
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State resources are misappropriated for the personal aggrandisement of the political elites.
The South African
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On the contrary, the principal aim of the French cabinet was aggrandisement.
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. / From the Acc...
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See how they have fought for the aggrandisement of their own order.
Erewhon Revisited Twenty Years Later, Both by the Original Disco...
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Every baron fought for his own land and for his own aggrandisement.
With the British Army in The Holy Land
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As ambitious, rapacious, eager for nothing but military glory and territorial aggrandisement.
Correspondence & Conversations of Alexis de Tocqueville with Nas...
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The great aim of politicians in France to-day is the aggrandisement of themselves.
The Slave of the Lamp
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In self-defence, for security rather than aggrandisement, the frontier must be pushed back.
Lectures on Modern history
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The man who aims at his own aggrandisement underrates everything else.
Sadhana : the realisation of life
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Literature was with them a relaxation, and served no purpose of worldly aggrandisement.
The History of Roman Literature / From the Earliest Period to th...
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Under Frederick the Great, Prussia's career of conquest and aggrandisement continued.
The War and Democracy
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You will bid me remember my rank-mybirth-myfather-schemes of aggrandisement.
Love and Intrigue: A Tragedy
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She was working and planning again for Maurice's happiness and aggrandisement.
Vera Nevill / Or, Poor Wisdom's Chance
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It has been England's eternal policy to damage us for her own aggrandisement.
The Coming Conquest of England
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Every self-observer has detected within himself mental weakness coincident with aggrandisement.
The Man Who Laughs: A Romance of English History
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Look at society-lookat politics-lookat commerce-all mere schemes for self-aggrandisement!
The Life Everlasting: A Reality of Romance
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The best way to guard against self-aggrandisement or self-abnegation is to focus on evidence.
The Guardian
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Translations for aggrandisement
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Aggrandisement a través del tiempo
Aggrandisement por variante geográfica
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