Synonyms

1. aggrandisement
2. aggrandizement

Sentence Examples

1. This was, to be sure, a singular recontre, for I had not believed it possible that a cloud of this nature could be sustained at so great an elevation.
2. This difficulty of direct vision had troubled me more or less for the last forty-eight hours but my present enormous elevation brought closer together, as it were, the floating bodies of vapor, and the inconvenience became, of course, more and more palpable in proportion to my ascent.
3. This elevation may appear immense, but the estimate upon which it is calculated gave a result in all probability far inferior to the truth.
4. I had by this time, however, attained too great an elevation to be any longer uneasy on this head.
5. The islands were no longer visible whether they had passed down the horizon to the southeast, or whether my increasing elevation had left them out of sight, it is impossible to say.
6. The highest among them does not exceed three and three-quarter miles in perpendicular elevation but a map of the volcanic districts of the Campi Phlegraei would afford to your Excellencies a better idea of their general surface than any unworthy description I might think proper to attempt.
7. The road here attained the highest elevation of the journey, eight thousand and ninety-two feet above the level of the sea.
8. I now lamented that my great elevation would, in this case, prevent my taking as accurate a survey as I could wish.
9. The track up to this time had reached its highest elevation at the Great Salt Lake.
10. But it soon occurred to me that the atmosphere was now far too rare to sustain even the feathers that they actually fell, as they appeared to do, with great rapidity and that I had been surprised by the united velocities of their descent and my own elevation.