Aggrandizement

//əˈɡrændɪzmənt// noun

noun ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The act of aggrandizing, or the state of being aggrandized or exalted in power, rank, honor, or wealth; exaltation; enlargement. countable, uncountable

    "The emperor seeks only the aggrandizement of his own family."

  2. 2
    the act of increasing the wealth or prestige or power or scope of something wordnet

Synonyms

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enlargementaccessaccessionaccumulationadditionadjunct

Example

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"His childish idea was, in fact, a pushing to the extremity of mathematical precision what is everywhere known as Grimm's Law—an aggrandizement of rough rules to ideal completeness."

Etymology

From French agrandissement, from agrandir; equivalent to aggrandize + -ment.

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self-aggrandizement

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