No man, however, can pay a more servile tribute to the great, than by suffering his liberty in their presence to aggrandise him in his own esteem.
Lewis could not but dread whatever tended to aggrandise a state governed by William.
That the rulers of this great city would ever consent to an expedition offensive in the highest degree to Lewis whom they courted, and likely to aggrandise the House of Orange which they abhorred, was not likely.
Thou shouldst, to the best of thy power, aggrandise him as thou winnest aggrandisement for thyself.
It is true, kings desirous of victory afflict many creatures, but after victory they advance and aggrandise all.
They who seek to aggrandise their fortunes by afflicting kingdoms in unscrupulous ways, very soon come to be regarded as vermin in a dead body.
The pope is obviously anxious to aggrandise his family, but he is mistaken in the means he adopts: it is I who ought to have been made duke, and my brother a cardinal.
But as in placing his sons in these exalted positions his only aim was to aggrandise and consolidate his own power, he himself ordered their retinues, giving them officers of his own choosing.
Full of haughtiness and ambition, Nicholas sought to aggrandise his own family as well as the Papal power.
Having secured the alliance of the Great Elector, anxious also to aggrandise himself in Polish Prussia, the Swedish king declared war against Poland, and in the early summer of 1656 laid siege to Danzig.
In England as elsewhere there is an increased tendency to aggrandise the functions of the State and to look to State aid or State control rather than individual or co-operative effort as the remedy of every evil.
Thus "the aristocratic system was in possession of society"; and the conflict which inevitably arose between the feudal baronage and the monarchic power served in time toaggrandise the cities, whose support was so important to both sides.
To aggrandise himself or to aggrandise his house never entered into his thoughts.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "aggrandise" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
