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Definition of Aggrandises
1. aggrandise [v] - See also: aggrandise
Lexicographical Neighbors of Aggrandises
Literary usage of Aggrandises
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1850)
"... "it blesseth him that gives and him that takes j" and the tenant in paying
his landlord aggrandises himself. " Fair is foul, and foul is fair. ..."
2. The Chartist Movement by Mark Hovell (1918)
"... which aids the powerful and strikes the helpless, which punishes the innocent
and rewards the guilty, which aggrandises the rich and robs the poor, ..."
3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1863)
"For it is not only the genius of rarest intellects which adorns and aggrandises
social states, but the aspirations and the efforts of thousands and millions ..."
4. The Spirit of the Age; Or, Contemporary Portraits edited by William Carew Hazlitt (1886)
"Mr. Godwin, in all his writings, dwells upon one idea or exclusive view of a
subject, aggrandises a sentiment, exaggerates a character, ..."
5. The Dial edited by Francis Fisher Browne (1908)
"It is curious that while Lewes aggrandises and Bielschowsky minimizes the
personality of Goethe, the exact reverse is the case with their judgment on his ..."
6. The Dial edited by Francis Fisher Browne (1908)
"It is curious that while Lewes aggrandises and Bielschowsky minimizes the
personality of Goethe, the exact reverse is the case with their judgment on his ..."
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