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
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 Evans, W.O.E.
The primary motive, self-exaltation, fails grandly; yet in its failure it brings into partial fulfilment the secondary motive, the fall of man.
From Vondel's Lucifer by Vondel, Joost van den
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 Dau, W. H. T. (William Herman Theodore)
