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Aggrandizer

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ag·gran·dize  (-grndz, grn-)
tr.v. ag·gran·dized, ag·gran·diz·ing, ag·gran·diz·es
1. To increase the scope of; extend.
2. To make greater in power, influence, stature, or reputation.
3. To make appear greater; exaggerate: aggrandize one argument while belittling another.
[French agrandir, agrandiss-, from Old French : a-, to (from Latin ad-; see ad-) + grandir, to grow larger (from Latin grandre, from grandis, large).]
ag·grandize·ment (-grndz-mnt, -dz-) n.
ag·grandizer n.
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Rather, Grinnell is an uncompromising aggrandizer of the object and the product, almost like a nincteenth-century dandy in his embrace of surface and cosmetic finery.
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Others have gone so far as to claim that the Taj Mahal itself was not built by a Mughal emperor to commemorate his wife but was, in fact, a pre-Islamic Hindu monument appropriated later by Muslim aggrandizers.
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