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• n  an act undertaken to increase your own power and influence or to draw attention to your own importance

• self-aggrandizement
• ego trip

Quotes

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• Robert Mugabe in Independent Online
  Mugabe called on the crowd to compare "the patriotism and sacrifice" of the country's heroes "to the character of our people who have chosen to worship the god of wealth and who have shown unbridled greed, corruption and self-aggrandisement."
• Trevor Ncube in Africasia
  Coming so soon after the failure of the two MDC factions to unite, Makoni's initiative provides a credible home and leadership for all those in opposition who desire genuine change and not self-aggrandisement,Ncube wrote in an article in his...
• Bantu Holomisa in Dispatch Online
  He needs to be aware that the politicians that surround him may be abusing his cause for their own self-aggrandisement. He should thank them for what they have done until now, and then jettison them,UDM leader Bantu Holomisa said.