Crossword-Solution: AGGRANDIZEMENT
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Aggrandizement | n. | The act of aggrandizing, or the state of being aggrandized or exalted in power, rank, honor, or wealth; exaltation; enlargement; as, the emperor seeks only the aggrandizement of his own family. |
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| ruff | 58 answers |
| Ornamentation | 70 answers |
| Fame | 84 answers |
| Extension | 85 answers |
| Esteem | 87 answers |
| outgrowth | 89 answers |
| Ornament | 96 answers |
| DECORATION ___ | 97 answers |
| Advance | 107 answers |
| Fancy | 122 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included
within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or
a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
EAAR
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with AGGRANDIZEMENT (5)
This treatment had led to his becoming a sort of forestaller of other men’s experiences of the glorious class, to his own aggrandizement as a Corinthian, rather than to the moral profit of his hearers.
She knew that his mother neither behaved to him so as to make his home comfortable at present, nor to give him any assurance that he might form a home for himself, without strictly attending to her views for his aggrandizement.
While the spoils of war were allowed, this did not extend to territorial aggrandizement, nor was there any wish to overthrow another nation and enslave its people.
Yet the religion that is preached in our churches and practiced by our congregations, with its element of display and self-aggrandizement, its active proselytism, and its open contempt of all religions but its own, was for a long time extremely repellent.
Yet, why do you suppose your father would disapprove? In our country, the affections are not sacrificed to riches or family aggrandizement: should you approve, my family is decent, and my rank honourable.
Quotes with AGGRANDIZEMENT (3)
Gradually it became known that the new race had a definite purpose, and that purpose was to chart and possess the whole country, regardless of the rights of its earlier inhabitants. Still the old chiefs cautioned their people to be patient, for, said they, the land is vast, both races can live on it, each in their own way. Let us therefore befriend them and trust their friendship. While they reasoned thus, the temptations of graft and self-aggrandizement overtook some of the leaders.
That kind of pursuit is not beneficial to mankind: art for self aggrandizement at the cost of love.
For "as great a blessing as government is," the Rev. Peter Whitney explained, "like other blessings, it may become a scourge, a curse, and severe punishment to a people." What made it so, what turned power into a malignent force, was not its own nature so much as the nature of man — his susceptibility to corruption and his lust for self-aggrandizement.