Your question is profoundly curious and wonderfully interested in understanding certain words, this is perhaps the best question in this particular page that has been asked yet. This is a question that should be asked more of, as it gets to the heart of the matter and any answer to such a question should humbly attempt to expand upon the true meaning of such a question and not just focus on the very narrow scope of definition. Thus, the answer to your most excellent question can only be answered in the most sincerest form of hyperbole. For what is a word truly if not the sum of its letters? All words, great and small, are merely indicators used to convey our thoughts and what is greater and more greater and even greater still than our own thoughts? Therefore, words should be indicated properly and reasonably. A word such as and, is rightly just a three letter word that only finds emphasis, in lieu of a comma, to emphasize the words that follow. When the idea is to make great or even greater still then that word should be, at the very least, fourteen letters long. A letter less would only be insulting to the idea behind it. Which is why aggrandize grew into aggrandizement as that only makes sense.
The emperor seeks only the aggrandizement of his own family.
Conservatism.
exaggerate, overstate, puff up, build up, magnify
John D. Rockefeller worked to aggrandize his empire by purchasing oil wells, refineries, and pipelines.
The Meaning of Meaning was created in 1923.
"The emperor seeks only the aggrandizement of his own family."http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/aggrandizement
The emperor seeks only the aggrandizement of his own family.
To help my coworker get a promotion, I used the art of aggrandizement.
the sign by the highway collapsed due to the aggrandizement of the message it carried.
An aggrandizement is an act of aggrandizing, of making grand, exalting, or increasing in power, rank, honour or wealth.
Altruism is centered in concern for doing for others, whereas self- aggrandizement is centered on selfishness.
Conservatism.
All 33 alternatives are self aggrandizement
Inflation, enlargement, expansion.
Physical fitness, competition and self aggrandizement, and as ceremonies honouring the gods.
exaggerate, overstate, puff up, build up, magnify
The aggrandizement of the president of this developing country posed a lot of questions when the rest of the people are starving.