aggrandize

aggrandize englannista suomeksi

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aggrandize englanniksi

1. To make great; to enlarge; to increase.

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2. {{quote-book|en|year=1624|author=Richard Montagu|title=Immediate Addresse vnto God Alone|location=London|publisher=Matthew Lownes and William Barret|page=19|url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A07647.0001.001

3. (RQ:Watts Improvement) ''Heroic Verſe'', but eſpecially in the ''grander Lyrics'', there are ſometimes ſuch noble Elevations of Thought and Paſſion as illuminate all Things around us, and convey to the Soul moſt exalted and magnificent Images and ſublime Sentiments: Theſe furniſh us with glorious Springs and ''Mediums'' to raiſe and aggrandize our Conceptions, (..)

4. (quote-book)|title=Observations, relative chiefly to picturesque beauty, made in the year 1776, on several parts of Great Britain; particularly the High-lands of Scotland|location=London|publisher=R. Blamire|volume=2|chapter=Account of the Prints|page=ii|url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004864140.0001.002

5. {{quote-book|en|year=1970|author=Benjamin I. Schwartz|title=Communism in China: Ideology in Flux|location=New York|publisher=Atheneum|page=10|url=https://openlibrary.org/ia/communismchina00benj

6. To make great or greater in power, rank, honor, or wealth (applied to persons, countries, etc.).

7. {{quote-book|en|year=1635|author=David Person|title=Varieties|location=London|publisher=Thomas Alchorn|chapter=To the Right Honovrable Thomas Earle of Hadington|url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A09500.0001.001

8. (RQ:Hume History) under pretence of ſecuring the purity of religion, he had laid a ſcheme of aggrandizing his own family, by extending its dominions over all Germany.

9. (RQ:Austen Emma)

10. (RQ:Prescott Philip 2) he seems never to have revived his schemes for aggrandizing his son by securing to him the succession to the empire.

11. To make appear great or greater; to exalt.

12. (RQ:Johnson Rambler) they contrive to make all approaches to them difficult and vexatious, and imagine that they aggrandize themſelves by waſting the time of others in uſeleſs attendance, and by mortifying them with ſlights, and teazing them with affronts.

13. (RQ:Lamb Essays of Elia)

14. 1881, (w), “Plymouth Rock and the Pilgrims,” address at the first annual dinner, N.E. Society, Philadelphia, 22(nbs)December, 1881, in ''Mark Twain’s Speeches'', New York: Harper, 1910, p.(nbs)18,https://archive.org/details/marktwainsspeech00twaiuoft

Why, to be celebrating the mere landing of the Pilgrims—to be trying to make out that this most natural and simple and customary procedure was an extraordinary circumstance—a circumstance to be amazed at, and admired, aggrandized and glorified, at orgies like this for two hundred and sixty years—hang it, a horse would have known enough to land; a horse (..)

15. (RQ:Guardian) committee to propose ban on guns that fire more than 10 rounds|date=16 January 2015|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150116231731/https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jan/16/sandy-hook-advisory-commission-newtown-ban-guns-fire-more-than-10-rounds|passage=They noted the use of his gunman’s name is hurtful to the victims’ families and using it could assist anyone who might want to aggrandize his actions.

16. To increase or become great.

17. 1946, Office of United States Chief of Counsel for Prosecution of Axis Criminality, ''Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression'', Volume 2, Washington: United States Government Printing Office, p.(nbs)317,https://www.fadedpage.com/books/20171224/html.php

The generals, like Hitler, wanted Germany to aggrandize at the expense of neighboring countries, and to do so if necessary by force or threat of force.