self-exaltation
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Joyce was an enemy of the Irish Literary Revival, which he excoriated as pretentious self-absorption and self-exaltation in the name of the authentic.
From Salon ● Feb. 1, 2022
E′gotism, a frequent use of the pronoun I: speaking much of one's self: self-exaltation; E′gotist, one full of egotism.—adjs.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
But he was, though between annoyance and self-exaltation he was behaving rather oddly.
From The Gold that Glitters The Mistakes of Jenny Lavender by W.O.E. Evans
Luther's teaching on justification is said to be the inevitable reverse of his former self-exaltation.
From Luther Examined and Reexamined A Review of Catholic Criticism and a Plea for Revaluation by W. H. T. (William Herman Theodore) Dau
And if one bit of vanity or self-exaltation could have been stirred in my thoughts, though it were by my mother's praises, these last words banished it well.
From Daisy in the Field by Susan Warner
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