Aggrandize vs Adduce - What's the difference?
aggrandize | adduce | Related terms |
To make great; to enlarge; to increase.
To make great or greater in power, rank, honor, or wealth; applied to persons, countries, etc.
* Prescott
To make appear great or greater; to exalt.
To increase or become great.
To bring forward or offer, as an argument, passage, or consideration which bears on a statement or case; to cite; to allege.
:* Reasons ... were adduced on both sides. - .
:* Enough could not be adduced to satisfy the purpose of illustration. - .
:* Whoever in discussion adduces authority, uses not reason but memory. -
:* For I am well aware that scarcely a single point is discussed in this volume on which facts cannot be adduced, -
Aggrandize is a related term of adduce.
In lang=en terms the difference between aggrandize and adduce
is that aggrandize is to increase or become great while adduce is to bring forward or offer, as an argument, passage, or consideration which bears on a statement or case; to cite; to allege.As verbs the difference between aggrandize and adduce
is that aggrandize is to make great; to enlarge; to increase while adduce is to bring forward or offer, as an argument, passage, or consideration which bears on a statement or case; to cite; to allege.aggrandize
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Alternative forms
* aggrandise (mainly British)Verb
(aggrandiz)- to aggrandize our conceptions, authority, distress
- his scheme for aggrandizing his son
- (Charles Lamb)
