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Meanings of aggrandizement in английском

португальский
engrandecimento
каталонский
ascens
испанский
ascenso

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

engrandecimento
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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
2
I'd heard once that elevation was good for injuries that involved swelling.
Notes from the dog
3
The general elevation of the country still appeared to be the same.
Journals of Expeditions of Discovery into Central Australia and ...
4
The difference is not in elevation or rainfall, but in the soil.
Northern Nut Growers Association Thirty-Fourth Annual Report 194...
5
It sometimes ends in uncommon elevation, indeed; but only at the gallows.
Moby-Dick; or, The Whale
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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...
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
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As ambitious, rapacious, eager for nothing but military glory and territorial aggrandisement.
Correspondence & Conversations of Alexis de Tocqueville with Nas...
Usage of aggrandizement in английском
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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, ...
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France has promised us not to grant any further aggrandizement to Prussia.
Louisa of Prussia and Her Times: A Historical Novel
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Unbounded as is human ambition, there is a limit to human aggrandizement.
Beacon Lights of History, Volume 04: Imperial Antiquity
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Our topics will relate but to worldly aggrandizement-yoursto more permanent interests.'
Zenobia; or, the Fall of Palmyra
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But as it was sung of the aggrandizement of Austria in former days-
Lectures and Essays
10
Not necessarily Democratic Party liberalismNjust that moderate state between self-sacrifice and reckless aggrandizement.
The new yorker
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No matter, I will never suffer the aggrandizement of the House of Austria.
Life and Death of John of Barneveld, Advocate of Holland : with ...
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The ambition of princes or peoples has sought its gratification in territorial aggrandizement.
Outlines of Universal History, Designed as a Text-book and for P...
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So did the lesser States of Germany, jealous of the aggrandizement of Prussia.
Beacon Lights of History, Volume 10: European Leaders
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They fight, not for the liberation of others, but for self-aggrandizement and ego.
Ebony
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The possession of raw materials is a more potent attraction than territorial aggrandizement.
The Inside Story of the Peace Conference
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The alert and enterprising Islanders have entered upon a career of national aggrandizement.
New Forces in Old China: An Inevitable Awakening
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Translations for aggrandizement
португальский
engrandecimentoenaltecimento
каталонский
ascenselevació
испанский
ascenso
Aggrandizement through the time
Aggrandizement across language varieties
United Kingdom
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United States of America
Common