Meanings
plural aggrandisements · alternative aggrandizement
- UKalternativecountableuncountableAlternative form of aggrandizement.
Evelyn was but one of many. Reckless, loving pleasure and ease; with much of worldly wealth and aggrandisement to tempt him on the other side of the question; yet was he heart and soul devoted to the Stuarts...
1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVI, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 1741 more example
What is clear is that Chelsea will live a different reality without Abramovich and there is a strong chance that it will not be as exciting. In football terms, he was the ideal owner: no money constraints; an individual motivated purely by aggrandisement, to succeed year after year.
March 11 2022, David Hytner, “Chelsea are in crisis but there is no will to leave club on their knees”, in The Guardian
Synonyms & antonyms
nounthe act of increasing the wealth or prestige or power or scope of something
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
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