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
And if one bit of vanity or self-exaltation could have been stirred in my thoughts, though it were by my mother's praises, these last words banished it well.
From Daisy in the Field by Susan Warner
S: Nay! those who disbelieve are in self-exaltation and opposition.
From Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by side by Abdullah Yusuf Ali
There is no display, no self-analysis, no self-exaltation, no amalgamation of self with nature.
From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 05 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English by Various
To such self-exaltation we give no place—no, not for a moment!
From The Way of Salvation in the Lutheran Church by M. (Mosheim) Rhodes
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