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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