aggrandisement

Noun

(plural aggrandisements)

(UK, rare) Alternative spelling of aggrandizement.

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When at the very height of power, all his schemes of aggrandisement came to sudden ruin through a succession of disastrous defeats at the hands of the Swiss at Grandson (March 2, 1476), at Morat (June 22, 1476) Austria.
Indistinguishable from his personal ambition was his passion for the aggrandisement of the church and its predominance in the state.
Apart from the semi-impotent Polish court, no responsible Pole dreamed of aggrandisement in Sweden.
His policy of imperial aggrandisement had been in progress.
The internal disorders of the realm depicted by Micah are also prominent in Isaiah's prophecies; they were closely connected, not only with the foreign complications due to the approach of the Assyrians, but with the break-up of the old agrarian system within Israel, and with the rapid and uncompensated aggrandisement of the nobles during those prosperous years when the conquest of Edom by Amaziah and the occupation of the port of Elath by his son (2 Kings xiv.

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