aggrandizement

Synonyms for aggrandizement

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noun. something conjoined to or enlargement of something

noun. something conjoined to or enlargement of something

noun. increase, expansion

Word Origin & History

1650s, from French agrandissement, noun of action from agrandir (see aggrandize).

The people were enslaved for the aggrandizement and power of a foreign church and state.

The old Kittredge had sought only his own aggrandizement, and his son was his son.

Rome had been too occupied with politics and aggrandizement ever to become cultured.

But what if the path of aggrandizement be also the path of safety?

For not so much to his own strength as to your laziness does he owe his present aggrandizement.

What has that to do with the matter, as long as it adds to the aggrandizement of our house and name?

And in this comedy of aggrandizement the puppets were willing—as puppets must needs be.

Sir Reginald's every thought was for his daughter—for her aggrandizement.

Goya made his appearance, and with him Spanish art underwent a renewal and an aggrandizement.

The wars in which this system was evolved were wars for prestige and aggrandizement.