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Self-exaltation vs Hauteur - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between self-exaltation and hauteur

is that self-exaltation is the exaltation of one's self while hauteur is haughtiness or arrogance; loftiness.

self-exaltation

English

Noun

(-)
  • The exaltation of one's self.

    • References

    * Oglivie, John. The Imperial Dictionary of the English Language: A Complete Encyclopedic Lexicon, Literary, Scientific, and Technological . Blackie & Son. (1884).

    hauteur

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • haughtiness or arrogance; loftiness
  • * 1960 , chapter XII
    • “What's happened, young Herring?” I think for a moment he was about to draw himself up with hauteur and say he would prefer, if we didn't mind, not to discuss his private affairs, but when he was half-way up he caught Aunt Dahlia's eye and returned to position one.
  • * 1992, , Penguin Books, paperback edition, page 31
    • [...] as, indeed, a new subject presented itself now, "Here's our turn!" braking the Toyota and turning the wheel sharply without having had time to signal so, close behind them, an angered motorist sounded his horn, but The Senator took no heed: not out of arrogance or hauteur but, simply, because he took no heed.
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