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Webster 1913 Edition


Loftiness

Loft′i-ness

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Noun.
The state or quality of being lofty.

Webster 1828 Edition


Loftiness

LOFT'INESS

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Noun.
1.
Height; elevation in place or position; altitude; as the loftiness of a mountain.
2.
Pride; haughtiness.
Augustus and Tiberius had loftiness enough in their tempers -
3.
Elevation of attitude or mien; as loftiness of carriage.
4.
Sublimity; elevation of diction or sentiment.
Three poets in three distant ages born; the first in loftiness of thought surpass'd; the next in majesty; in both the last.

Definition 2024


loftiness

loftiness

English

Noun

loftiness (countable and uncountable, plural loftinesses)

  1. The state of being lofty.
  2. arrogance or haughtiness

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