"self-aggrandizement" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1906, Anna Katharine Green, chapter 29, in The Chief Legatee",
          "text": "[W]hat can selfish greed, what can self-aggrandizement and the most pitiless ambition effect against men who own to such discipline as this?",
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          "ref": "2001 Feb. 25, Stacey D'Erasmo, \"Here Comes the Neighborhood\" (book review of Everyday People by Stewart O'Nan), New York Times (retrieved 5 July 2015)",
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          "sense": "behavior which increases one's own wealth or power, or which is intended to create an appearance of importance",
          "word": "autoengrandecimiento"
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