self-exaltation
Example Sentences
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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
The pomp, and circumstance, and self-exaltation, so current now-a-days, he utterly despises.
From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume VI The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century by Rogers, Charles
She mentioned in her journal her fears whether or not this publicity, and the evident respect paid her by the people in power in the city, might not develop worldly pride of self-exaltation in her.
From Elizabeth Fry by Pitman, Mrs. E. R.
The self-exaltation of virtue was now taken out of him, washed away by his double repentance, and he was now again a child.
From Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine by Auerbach, Berthold
