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
His self-exaltation had offended many patriots who did not fall under his personal magnetism, and his assumption of authority in military matters where he had no knowledge to justify it, alienated the competent officers.
From The Autobiography of a Journalist, Volume I by Stillman, William James
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
