aggrandizement

noun

/əˈɡrændɪzmənt/

(British English also aggrandisement)

[uncountable] (formal, disapproving)

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an increase in the power or importance of a person or country
- Her sole aim is personal aggrandizement.
- He was a strong and greedy monarch who pursued a course of military aggrandizement from the beginning of his reign.
see also self-aggrandizing
Word Originmid 17th cent. (in the general sense ‘increase, magnify’): from French agrandiss-, lengthened stem of agrandir, probably from Italian aggrandire, from Latin grandis ‘large’. The ending was changed by association with verbs ending in -ize + -ment.

单词	aggrandizement
释义	aggrandizement noun /əˈɡrændɪzmənt/ /əˈɡrændɪzmənt/ (British English also aggrandisement) [uncountable] (formal, disapproving) jump to other results an increase in the power or importance of a person or country Her sole aim is personal aggrandizement. He was a strong and greedy monarch who pursued a course of military aggrandizement from the beginning of his reign. see also self-aggrandizing Word Originmid 17th cent. (in the general sense ‘increase, magnify’): from French agrandiss-, lengthened stem of agrandir, probably from Italian aggrandire, from Latin grandis ‘large’. The ending was changed by association with verbs ending in -ize + -ment.
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