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

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 Eliot, George

Justice Renade, in his social reform movement of the last fifty years, has carried the spirit of philanthropy into practice, more fully than did Vivekananda or Mrs. Besant, and without any of their fantastic self-exaltation.

From A Tour of the Missions Observations and Conclusions by Strong, Augustus Hopkins

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.