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It would be one thing if the lesson were that his lovingly designed handicrafts proved more rewarding than the magic mountain of self-adulation represented by the “12 Days” tree, but nope.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 30, 2023

It obliterates the despair that once defined their lives and replaces it with feelings of ecstatic self-importance and self-adulation, a state of being outside the self.

From Salon • Sep. 10, 2020

He paused the self-adulation long enough to ask: “How am I doing?”

From Washington Post • Jun. 5, 2019

Self-definition can cross easily into self-satisfaction, heading right toward self-adulation, and what is revealed unwittingly may be truest.

From New York Times • Jun. 18, 2010

The self-adulation was absolute, the contempt was all-embracing, for the Revised Version rightly renders 'set all others at nought.'

From Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Luke by Maclaren, Alexander