Definition of Toploftiness

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Toploftiness

toplessness
toplessnesses
toplight
toplights
topline
toplined
topliner
topliners
toplines
toplining
toploading
toploftical
toploftier
toploftiest
toploftily
toploftiness (current term)
toploftinesses
toplofty
topmaker
topmakers
topman
topmast
topmasts
topmen
topminnow
topminnows
topmost
topness
topnotch
topnotcher

Literary usage of Toploftiness

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

1. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1859)
"... the General's literary style may be called Corinthian- Gothic, combining the elements of graceful proportion, toploftiness, and branching- out, ..."

2. Parts of Speech: Essays on English by Brander Matthews (1901)
"Something of the toploftiness of the elder rhetoricians yet lingers in the tone many British writers of to-day see fit to adopt whenever they ..."

3. With Kuroki in Manchuria by Frederick Palmer (1904)
"While he was indulging in such toploftiness over vodka and cigarettes, the little fellows who fought this morning were smiling, smiling, smiling, ..."

4. The Literary World by Samuel R. Crocker, Edward Abbott, Nicholas Paine Gilman, Madeline Vaughan Abbott Bushnell, Bliss Carman, Herbert Copeland (1902)
"There is no such line in history, and the writers whom Mr. Kidd corrects with such toploftiness of mind have known better than to draw one. ..."

5. The Marching Years by Norman Bridge (1920)
"... toploftiness he may have shown was gone, and he knew there were girls in the school only by their voices and by the rustle of the clothes of the more ..."

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