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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

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Loftier

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Loftiest

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Lifted high up; having great height; towering; high.

See

lofty

Lebanon his head advance.

Pope.

Fig.: Elevated in character, rank, dignity, spirit, bearing, language, etc.; exalted; noble; stately; characterized by pride; haughty.

The high and

lofty

One, that inhabiteth eternity.

Is. lvii. 15.

Lofty

and sour to them that loved him not

Shakespeare

Syn. – Tall; high; exalted; dignified; stately; majestic; sublime; proud; haughty. See

, a.

Elevated in place; high; as a lofty tower; a lofty mountain. [But it expresses more than high, or at least is more emphatical, poetical and elegant.]

See lofty Lebanon his head advance.

Elevated in condition or character.

Thus saith the high and lofty One, that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy - Is. 57.

Proud; haughty; as lofty looks. Is. 2.

Elevated in sentiment or diction; sublime; as lofty strains; lofty rhyme.

Stately; dignified; as lofty steps.