In all Philip's visions of future prosperity, it was Sylvia who was to be Aggrandized by them; his own life was to be spent as it was now, pretty much between the four shop walls.
"Sylvia's Lovers -- Complete"
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
How one "Power" may be Aggrandized and another curtailed, how the spoils may be divided among the victors, how the "balance" may be arranged-these kinds of considerations and these alone have influenced their minds.
"The Healing of Nations and the Hidden Sources of Their Strife"
Edward Carpenter
The Prussian monarchy was suddenly bereft of half its population, and now figured on the map as a disjointed land, scarcely larger than the possessions of the King of Saxony, and less defensible than Jerome Bonaparte's Kingdom of Westphalia; while the Confederation of the Rhine, soon to be Aggrandized by the accession of Mecklenburg and Oldenburg, seemed to doom the House of Hohenzollern to lasting insignificance.
"The Life of Napoleon I (Volumes, 1 and 2)"
John Holland Rose