self-exaltation
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Joyce was an enemy of the Irish Literary Revival, which he excoriated as pretentious self-absorption and self-exaltation in the name of the authentic.
From Salon • Feb. 1, 2022
Most major West German newspapers backed K�ng, though the influential Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung accused him of "self-exaltation and contempt for others."
From Time Magazine Archive
Then there is self-exaltation, another form of the works of self.
From The Master's Indwelling by Murray, Andrew
Luther's teaching on justification is said to be the inevitable reverse of his former self-exaltation.
From Luther Examined and Reexamined A Review of Catholic Criticism and a Plea for Revaluation by Dau, W. H. T. (William Herman Theodore)
Then how should others, how should such infirm beings as we, be free from self-exaltation?
From Epistle Sermons, Vol. II Epiphany, Easter and Pentecost by Lenker, John Nicholas
