Definition of "loftiness" []

• The state of being lofty. (noun)
• Arrogance or haughtiness (noun)

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• "I tell you mighty Westarwân, for all his star-crowned loftiness, is no King to me."
• "But the daughter of Theodosius submitted, without reluctance, to the desires of the conqueror, a young and valiant prince, who yielded to Alaric in loftiness of stature, but who excelled in the more attractive qualities of grace and beauty."
• "Theophylact: Or else, the lord of the house is the intellect, which points out the large upper room, that is, the loftiness of intelligences, and which, though it be high, yet has nothing of vain glory, or of pride, but is prepared and made level by humility."