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Definition of Self-aggrandisement

1. Noun. An act undertaken to increase your own power and influence or to draw attention to your own importance.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Self-aggrandisement

Literary usage of Self-aggrandisement

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. History of English Nonconformity from Wiclif to the Close of the Nineteenth by Henry William Clark (1911)
"... Henry's desire for self-aggrandisement and in his resolve to let nothing come between him and the gratification of his pleasure or his self-will. ..."

2. The Passion of Labour by Robert Lynd (1921)
"self-aggrandisement to the ideal of equal service, the hindmost must in the nature ... Work with the object of self- aggrandisement can lead nowhere but to ..."

3. The Passion of Labour by Robert Lynd (1921)
"self-aggrandisement to the ideal of equal service, the hindmost must in the ... Work with the object of self- aggrandisement can lead nowhere but to the ..."

4. What is and what Might be: A Study of Education in General and Elementary by Edmond Gore Alexander Holmes (1912)
"As the child grows older, the desire to grow becomes a desire for self-aggrandisement,—a desire to shine in various ways, to surpass others, to be admired, ..."

5. The Vested Interests and the State of the Industrial Arts: ("The Modern by Thorstein Veblen (1919)
"... which being interpreted means the self-aggrandisement of each and several at the cost of the rest, by a reasonable use of force and fraud. ..."

6. The Vested Interests and the Common Man: ("The Modern Point of View and the by Thorstein Veblen (1920)
"... which being interpreted means the self-aggrandisement of each and several at the cost of the rest, by a reasonable use of force and fraud. ..."

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