aggrandizement
noun(British English also aggrandisement)
[uncountable] (formal, disapproving)an increase in the power or importance of a person or country （个人、国家权力或重要性的）扩大，增加，提高 Her sole aim is personal aggrandizement. 她唯一的目的就是扩大个人权势。 He was a strong and greedy monarch who pursued a course of military aggrandizement from the beginning of his reign. 他是一个强大而贪婪的君主，从统治开始就追求军事扩张。
Word Originmid 17th cent. (in the general sense ‘increase, magnify’): from French agrandiss-, lengthened stem of agrandir, probably from Italian aggrandire, from Latin grandis ‘large’. The ending was changed by association with verbs ending in -ize + -ment.