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It is a direct expression of not just the chasm that exists between the led and the leader but also their self-exalted state of pseudo-divinity.

From BBC • Dec. 14, 2010

Oh when most self-exalted most alone, Chief dreamer, own thy dream!

From Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold by Arnold, Matthew

The cause of Mr. Burroughs’s mediaeval view of the other animals is to be found, not in his knowledge of those other animals, but in the suggestion of his self-exalted ego. 

From Revolution, and Other Essays by London, Jack

He is, in promiscuous alternation, refined, gross, sentimental, serious, humorous, indignant, repentant, dignified, vulgar, tender, manly, sceptical, reverential, rakish, pathetic, sympathetic, satirical, playful, pitiably self-abased, mysteriously self-exalted.

From The Letters of Robert Burns by Burns, Robert

Can such an one, think you, be vain-glorious or self-exalted, and lifted up?

From The Story of Anna Kingsford and Edward Maitland and of the new Gospel of Interpretation by Maitland, Edward