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Loftiness

LOFT'INESS, n. 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...

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LOFT'INESS, n.

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.

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