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What is an aggrandisement?

What is an aggrandisement? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (Britain, rare) Alternative form of aggrandizement
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It is journalistic slop, political flatulence and religious aggrandisement, and it is deadly dangerous.
But Carrillo exploited this for his personal aggrandisement.
A former prime minister of Luxembourg, whose tiny elite naturally sees the European Union as a windfall opportunity for national security and personal aggrandisement, Mr Juncker is a European federalist of the old school.
This seems to contradict conventional thinking which tends to promulgate the idea that it is the aggrandisement of the ego and 'everyone for themselves' that is important.
The means are the sacrifice of many, the end, the bloated aggrandisement of the few.
In both cases we have seen a rejection of the 19th century game of territorial aggrandisement in favour of the 21st century game of international integration.

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