aggrandizationn.

1649 Bp. J. Hall Humble Motion to Parl. 14 What directer caus-way could you finde to the aggrandization of your owne glory?

1683 E. Hooker in J. Pordage Theologia Mystica Pref. Epist. 25 The Aggrandization, as I mai sai, and Exaltation, and veri Glorification of the Prince of Devils.

1738 Present State Germany I. 165 The Aggrandization of the surviving Branch in the Electoral House.

1794 J. Charnock Biographia Navalis I. Introd. p. xix His [sc. Louis the Fourteenth's] romantic scheme of aggrandization, founded on false principles of glory, experienced the fate which rarely fails to attend ambitious vanity.

1833 Knickerbacker Mar. 170 The great body of the people..were universally dissatisfied at..the heavy imposts with which they were loaded for the aggrandization of a foreign and generally hostile power.

1866 Railway News 24 Mar. 329/1 The deep-laid schemes of aggrandisation which occupied so much of the attention of the head of the Russian Empire caused him to overlook the real strength of Turkey.

1929 S. H. Roberts Hist. French Colonial Policy I. ii. vi. 228 More emphasis was placed on preventing land going back to the natives than on preventing aggrandization.

1981 Jrnl. Econ. Issue 15 503 Market pressures play their role, and values of private profit, endless accumulation, and aggrandization of consumption are based on an ideology of greed.

2008 A. Williams Toxic Morsel i. 10 The myth that grew around Lawrence, the ‘facts of his life’ distorted by a press bent on the aggrandization of Imperial Britain has produced a vast corpus dealing with Lawrence the Arabian.