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Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th
aggrandizement
ag·grand·ize·ment f34 (BrE also-ise·ment) [aggrandizement aggrandizements] BrE [əˈɡrændɪzmənt] NAmE [əˈɡrændɪzmənt] noun uncountable (formal, disapproving)
an increase in the power or importance of a person or country
•Her sole aim is personal aggrandizement.
•He was a strong and greedy monarch who pursued a course of military aggrandizement from the beginning of his reign.
Word Origin:
mid 17th cent. (in the general sense ‘increase, magnify’): from French agrandiss-, lengthened stem of agrandir, probably from Italian aggrandire, from Latin grandis ‘large’. The ending was changed by association with verbs ending in ↑-ize + ↑-ment.
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