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
This light appears between two black rainy clouds, whereof the upper one is presumption and self-exaltation, and the lower a disdaining of one's neighbour.
From Christian Mysticism by William Ralph Inge
The self-exaltation frequently employed by injudicious writers, sometimes places them in ridiculous attitudes.
From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 by Isaac Disraeli
His self-exaltation had offended many patriots who did not fall under his personal magnetism, and his assumption of authority in military matters where he had no knowledge to justify it, alienated the competent officers.
From The Autobiography of a Journalist, Volume I by William James Stillman
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
