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self-aggrandizement en · NOUN

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *swé? Proto-Indo-European *selbʰ-der. Proto-Germanic *selbaz Old English self Old English self- Middle English self- English self- English aggrandizement English self-aggrandizement From self- + aggrandizement.

Meanings

  1. (countable, uncountable) Behaviour which increases one's own wealth or power, or which is intended to create an appearance of importance.
    • In your case, I fear, confession is exploitation by indirection, profit-making by ruse, self-aggrandizement at the expense of God. 1907 September, Jack London, “A Day’s Lodging”, in Love of Life and Other Stories, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., published December 1907, →OCLC, page 64:
    • Belarus was always going to be the most willing partner in Russia’s attempts at self-aggrandizement. 2014 July 1, Frank Jacobs, “Welcome to Stanistan”, in Foreign Policy, archived from the original on 03 Aug 2023:
    • [W]hat can selfish greed, what can self-aggrandizement and the most pitiless ambition effect against men who own to such discipline as this? 1906, Anna Katharine Green, chapter 29, in The Chief Legatee:
    • As readers, we sense when the game is being played for real and when something else is afoot: pride, showmanship, the pursuit of power, self-aggrandizement, revenge, making money. 2001 February 25, Stacey D’Erasmo, “Here comes the neighborhood [review of Everyday People (2001) by Stewart O’Nan]”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 19 Apr 2022:

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Translations (3)

es autobombo (behaviour which increases one’s own wealth or power, or which is intended to create an appearance of importance) · fr autoglorification (behaviour which increases one’s own wealth or power, or which is intended to create an appearance of importance) · es autoengrandecimiento (behaviour which increases one’s own wealth or power, or which is intended to create an appearance of importance)