📚 noun • entry_id 44557
self-aggrandizement
Meanings (ES + gloss)
autobombo • autoengrandecimiento
Behaviour which increases one's own wealth or power, or which is intended to create an appearance of importance.
In your case, I fear, confession is exploitation by indirection, profit-making by ruse, self-aggrandizement at the expense of God.
[W]hat can selfish greed, what can self-aggrandizement and the most pitiless ambition effect against men who own to such discipline as this?
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