The word 'aggrandisement' is correct and can be used in written English.
It means the act of increasing the power, prestige, or importance of something or someone. It is often used to describe someone or something becoming more grand or impressive. Example sentence: The CEO's constant pursuit of aggrandisement for the company led to its rapid growth and success in the market.
Many of us fear that his bad decisions were made, not so much in the national interest, but more on the basis of narrow party political advantage or personal aggrandisement.
Mr Noda is backed by the country's largest newspaper, the Yomiuri, which calls the deployment "indispensible", against "China's military aggrandisement" and threats from North Korea.The government has attempted to douse the controversy by demanding publicly that the American army "reconfirm" the aircraft's safety to that end officials from both sides are meeting on July 26th in Tokyo.
The reconstruction of a church destroyed in 1963 was stopped as part of a vicious quarrel in which Albanians, for their part, demanded the reconstruction of a mosque.Macedonians have mixed feelings about the government's cultural aggrandisement.
He promoted academic life at the Sorbonne, founded a weekly newspaper, wrote copious religious tracts and joined a Paris reading group that grew under his sponsorship into the Académie Française.Personal aggrandisement combined in him with patriotism.
But Carrillo exploited this for his personal aggrandisement.
The cast of presidential candidates has been drawn from a tainted elite who are far stronger in the pursuit of personal aggrandisement than any ambition to serve the country's 70m people, over a third of whom still live in grinding poverty.
It is not so much that giving by the rich is fashionable again; rather it is that at least some acts of generosity are carried out without much self-aggrandisement.
He was never interested in reform and focused instead on self-aggrandisement and legal imbroglios (his "Rubygate" trial for sexual offences will resume after the election).
Nor does the world really need another description of the British secret service arriving to whisk Salman Rushdie away from Bruce Chatwin's funeral following the publication of "The Satanic Verses" and the resulting fatwa certainly not in Mr White's rushed, blunt terms.But the gossip and self-aggrandisement is laced with tenderness and truth.
Acts that look virtuous crumble under scrutiny; charity comes to look like moral self-aggrandisement or self-interest.
Despite its self-aggrandisement, Dubai is not yet important enough to bring down the global financial system.
