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self-aggrandisement

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Noun1.self-aggrandisement - an act undertaken to increase your own power and influence or to draw attention to your own importance
ego trip, self-aggrandizement
aggrandisement, aggrandizement, elevation - the act of increasing the wealth or prestige or power or scope of something; "the aggrandizement of the king"; "his elevation to cardinal"


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The great capitalists devouring the little capitalists, concentrating the power and the tools of production in great masses, perfecting industrial processes, and in the madness of self-aggrandisement only preparing, organising, enriching, making ready the lawful inheritance of the suffering proletariat.
The Secret Agent by Conrad, Joseph View in context
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