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Aggrandizement is the act of enlarging or expanding something's power or status. It's hard sometimes to tell if politicians run for office in order to help their communities, or just for their own aggrandizement. Aggrandizement is the noun form of the verb aggrandize, to increase the power or reputation of something, and it usually implies that there's some exaggeration going on.
The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed. Copyright The Columbia University Press. Ã©migrÃ© (ÄmÄgrÄÂ´), in French history, a refugee, usually royalist, who fled the French Revolution and took up residence in a foreign land. The Ã©migrÃ©s comprised all classes, but were disproportionately drawn from the privileged. Immediately after the fall of the Bastille (1789), the exodus of the princes of the blood began, and successive waves of emigration took place after that date. King Louis XVI himself tried to flee (1791) France but was arrested at Varennes.