AGGRANDIZEMENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does aggrandizement mean? 

• AGGRANDIZEMENT (noun)
  The noun AGGRANDIZEMENT has 1 sense:

1. the act of increasing the wealth or prestige or power or scope of something

  Familiarity information: AGGRANDIZEMENT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AGGRANDIZEMENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of increasing the wealth or prestige or power or scope of something

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

aggrandisement; aggrandizement; elevation

Context example:

his elevation to cardinal

Hypernyms ("aggrandizement" is a kind of...):

increase; step-up (the act of increasing something)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "aggrandizement"):

ego trip; self-aggrandisement; self-aggrandizement (an act undertaken to increase your own power and influence or to draw attention to your own importance)

Derivation:

aggrandize (add details to)

 Context examples 

In your case, I fear, confession is exploitation by indirection, profit- making by ruse, self-aggrandizement at the expense of God.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

She knew that his mother neither behaved to him so as to make his home comfortable at present, nor to give him any assurance that he might form a home for himself, without strictly attending to her views for his aggrandizement.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)