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Aggrandizement is when a person, a group, or a country tries to make themselves bigger in power, land, or importance — and the speaker does not like it. The word carries a . Newspapers use it to criticise a leader who wants more glory, or a country that grabs land. You would not thank someone for your “aggrandizement”; you say it about them, to show . Though actually, this is not ordinary “success” or “growth.” If a shop grows because people like it, that is not aggrandizement. The word is for climbing by pushing, showing off, or taking. British spelling often aggrandisement, with an s.
擴張權勢、自我膨風（帶貶義）
組成From French agrandissement, from agrandir (“to make larger”); equivalent to aggrandize + -ment.
同家族的字
- aggrandizethe verb; this noun is aggrandize plus -ment
- grandFrench agrandir is built on grand (“large”); English grand is that same piece
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
aggrandizementnoun/əˈɡrændɪzmənt/
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The act of aggrandizing, or the state of being aggrandized or exalted in power, rank, honor, or wealth; exaltation; enlargement.
- The emperor seeks only the aggrandizement of his own family.
- He contented himself therefore with repeating, that his attachment was to Miss Ashton personally; that he desired neither wealth nor aggrandizement from her father's means and influence, and that nothing should prevent his keeping his engagement, excepting her own express desire that it should be relinquished—and he requested as a favour that the matter might be no more mentioned betwixt them at present, assuring the Marquis of A—— that he should be his confident in its progress or its interruption.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。