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

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

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.

She had heard he was vain and egotistical, and no doubt he reveled in the opportunity for self-exaltation that the rôle afforded him.

From The Gray Phantom by Landon, Herman