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aggrandizement
/əˈɡrænˌdaɪ̯zmənt/
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What does aggrandizement mean?
noun
- The act of aggrandizing, or the state of being aggrandized or exalted in power, rank, honor, or wealth; exaltation; enlargement.
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How shall it be prevented from even injuring a part of its own members, for the aggrandizement of the rest?
Princes fought in self-defence or for aggrandizement, while religious enthusiasm recruited their armies, and opened to them the treasures of their subjects.
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Higher objects than personal aggrandizement gave direction and energy to their exertions in the late canvass, and they shall not be disappointed.
An ambitious man might make his own aggrandizement, by the aid of a foreign power, the price of his treachery to his constituents.
Instead, it put at the disposal of a class the means to secure their old ends of aggrandizement at the expense of another class.