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Joyce was an enemy of the Irish Literary Revival, which he excoriated as pretentious self-absorption and self-exaltation in the name of the authentic.

From Salon • Feb. 1, 2022

Most major West German newspapers backed K�ng, though the influential Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung accused him of "self-exaltation and contempt for others."

From Time Magazine Archive

The self-exaltation frequently employed by injudicious writers, sometimes places them in ridiculous attitudes.

From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 by Disraeli, Isaac

E′gotism, a frequent use of the pronoun I: speaking much of one's self: self-exaltation; E′gotist, one full of egotism.—adjs.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various

And yet there might be secret self-exaltation in associating God with myself.

From The Master's Indwelling by Murray, Andrew