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
Then there is self-exaltation, another form of the works of self.
From The Master's Indwelling by Andrew Murray
She had heard he was vain and egotistical, and no doubt he reveled in the opportunity for self-exaltation that the rôle afforded him.
From The Gray Phantom by Herman Landon
The primary motive, self-exaltation, fails grandly; yet in its failure it brings into partial fulfilment the secondary motive, the fall of man.
From Vondel's Lucifer by Joost van den Vondel
Justice Renade, in his social reform movement of the last fifty years, has carried the spirit of philanthropy into practice, more fully than did Vivekananda or Mrs. Besant, and without any of their fantastic self-exaltation.
From A Tour of the Missions Observations and Conclusions by Augustus Hopkins Strong
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