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
There is no display, no self-analysis, no self-exaltation, no amalgamation of self with nature.
From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 05 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English by Various
Once the dominant political ideas depressed men into self-contempt; now they lift men into self-exaltation.
From Christianity and Progress by Harry Emerson Fosdick
None the less did he warn the victors against self-exaltation and arrogance.
From Life of Luther by Julius Koestlin
Mr. Will Ladislaw's sense of the ludicrous lit up his features very agreeably: it was the pure enjoyment of comicality, and had no mixture of sneering and self-exaltation.
From Middlemarch by George Eliot
