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
Most major West German newspapers backed K�ng, though the influential Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung accused him of "self-exaltation and contempt for others."
From Time Magazine Archive
Once the dominant political ideas depressed men into self-contempt; now they lift men into self-exaltation.
From Christianity and Progress by Fosdick, Harry Emerson
What a contrast between that self-exaltation of Peter, and the deep humility of the Lamb of God, meek and lowly in heart before God and man!
From The Master's Indwelling by Murray, Andrew
A kind of self-exaltation is by this writer imputed to Jesus, which is as much less attractive than his attitude in the Synoptics as it is less genuine.
From The Chief End of Man by Merriam, George Spring
