Definition of Haughtiest

1. Adjective. (superlative of haughty) ¹

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Definition of Haughtiest

1. haughty [adj] - See also: haughty

Lexicographical Neighbors of Haughtiest

hauch
hauchecornite
hauchs
hauckite
haud
hauding
hauds
haue
hauerite
hauf
haufs
haugh
haughs
haught
haughtier
haughtiest
haughtily
haughtiness
haughtinesses
haughty
hauing
haul
haul away
haul down
haul somebody over the coals
haul up

Literary usage of Haughtiest

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Iliad of Homer by Homer, John Graham Cordery (1871)
"... where the cry had wax'd Round mighty Nestor and Idomeneus Most quenchless, and the haughtiest crests were falling; With these had Hector mingled, ..."

2. Venetia by Benjamin Disraeli (1858)
"... In life's perplexing annals, is the fate Of those who act, and musing, penetrate The mystery of Fortune: to whose reign The haughtiest brow must bend; ..."

3. A Revised and Enlarged Account of the Bobbili Zemindari by Venkata Swetachalapati Ranga Rao (1907)
"m by the haughtiest observances, insomuch that • the breath of a different religion, and even of the meaner Indians, requires ablution. ..."

4. Io Anche!: Poems, Chiefly Lyrical by Thomas Smibert (1851)
"It was Attila's spirit, I knew it at once; Thou faithful one, neigh, then, in haughtiest tones, And prance with thy hoofs upon nations and thrones! ..."

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