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
Neither was there any pharisaical self-exaltation on the part of the rival.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XVI., December, 1880. by Various
None the less did he warn the victors against self-exaltation and arrogance.
From Life of Luther by Koestlin, Julius
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 Vondel, Joost van den
