self-aggrandizement

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Behaviour which increases one's own wealth or power, or which is intended to create an appearance of importance. countable,uncountable
    — [W]hat can selfish greed, what can self-aggrandizement and the most pitiless ambition effect against men who own to such discipline as this?

词形变化

self-aggrandizements plural

词源

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *swé?
Proto-Indo-European *selbʰ-der.
Proto-Germanic *selbaz
Old English self
Old English self-
Middle English self-
English self-
English aggrandizement
English self-aggrandizement
From self- + aggrandizement.
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