LOFTILY, LOFTINESS, LOFTY
ADJECTIVES
1000 ► reaching or piercing the clouds; very lofty → HEAVEN-HIGH
1440 ► exalted, lofty → HAUTFUL → obs.
1470 ► of exalted character, esp. in the matter of courage; high-minded, noble; lofty → HAUGHT → obs.
1523 ► high-souled; lofty, magnanimous → MAGNANIME → obs.
1582 ► upright and tall; lofty → TALRIGHT → obs.
1594 ► of lofty character → HIGH-PITCHED
1598 ► high-souled; nobly ambitious; lofty of purpose → MAGNANIMOUS
1599 ► tall, lofty, high; long → PROCEROUS → obs.
1611 ► high, lofty, towering → TOPFUL → obs.
1623 ► heaven-defying; lofty → AIR-BRAVING → obs.
1632 ► lofty, towering → HIDDIE → HIDDY → obs.
M17 ► lofty, visionary → BABEL
1656 ► lofty or ambitious in expression, grandiloquent → MAGNILOQUENT
1670 ► grandiloquent, magniloquent; high-flown, lofty → TALL → colloq.
1727 ► magniloquent → MAGNILOQUOUS → obs.
1730 ► seeming to touch or reach the sky; lofty → SKIED
1808 ► high, lofty → ALTITUDINOUS
1823 ► lofty, high-flown, high and mighty, stuck-up, haughty, having a superior or disdainful attitude → TOPLOFTICAL → colloq. humorous
1859 ► lofty in manner or character; elevated; haughty, high and mighty, pretentious, stuck-up → TOPLOFTY → colloq. humorous
1905 ► towering, lofty, as of a crag or church steeple → NAUNTLING → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
ADVERBS
1611 ► highly, loftily → TALLY
NOUNS
1300 ► highness, height; loftiness of rank or character; nobility; haughtiness, pride; grandeur, stateliness; length of time → HAUTESSE → obs.
1598 ► loftiness of thought or purpose; grandeur of designs, nobly ambitious spirit → MAGNANIMITY
1606 ► magnanimity → MAGNANIMOUSNESS → obs.
1615 ► loftiness of speech or expression → MAGNILOQUENCY → obs.
1623 ► loftiness of speech or expression → MAGNILOQUENCE
1628 ► loftiness of manner or bearing; haughtiness of demeanour → HAUGHTURE → HAUTEUR
M17 ► a lofty structure; a visionary project → BABEL
1656 ► magniloquence → MAGNILOQUY
1887 ► lofty bearing, pomposity → LARGENESS
VERBS
1871 ► to strike a lofty attitude → SET UP ONE’S BONNET A HACK → Sc.
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