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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