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
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
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 Strong, Augustus Hopkins
This was the burden of the injunctions enforced on us throughout; the failures of others through self-exaltation being adduced in illustration.
From The Story of Anna Kingsford and Edward Maitland and of the new Gospel of Interpretation by Maitland, Edward
