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

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

Mr. Will Ladislaw's sense of the ludicrous lit up his features very agreeably: it was the pure enjoyment of comicality, and had no mixture of sneering and self-exaltation.

From Middlemarch by Eliot, George

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