aggrandisement

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English

Etymology

From aggrandise +‎ -ment.

Noun

aggrandisement (countable and uncountable, plural aggrandisements)

  1. (British) Alternative form of aggrandizement
    • 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVI, in Francesca Carrara. , volume I, London: Richard Bentley, , (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 174:
      Evelyn was but one of many. Reckless, loving pleasure and ease; with much of worldly wealth and aggrandisement to tempt him on the other side of the question; yet was he heart and soul devoted to the Stuarts...
    • March 11 2022, David Hytner, “Chelsea are in crisis but there is no will to leave club on their knees”, in The Guardian:
      What is clear is that Chelsea will live a different reality without Abramovich and there is a strong chance that it will not be as exciting. In football terms, he was the ideal owner: no money constraints; an individual motivated purely by aggrandisement, to succeed year after year.