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Definition of High-sounding
1. Adjective. Pretentious (especially with regard to language or ideals). "A high-sounding dissertation on the means to attain social revolution"
Definition of High-sounding
1. Adjective. Having an elevated or moralistic tone. ¹
2. Adjective. Oratorial or even contrived sounding. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of High-sounding
1. Pompous; noisy; ostentatious; as, high-sounding words or titles. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of High-sounding
Literary usage of High-sounding
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the Popes, from the Close of the Middle Ages: Drawn from the by Ludwig Pastor, Ralph Francis Kerr, Frederick Ignatius Antrobus (1908)
"But in spite of these high-sounding assurances he was not at all pleased that
Leo should have thus taken the business in hand. The secret instructions given ..."
2. Report of the Proceedings by Church congress (1882)
"Praise Him upon the high-sounding cymbals ! Let everything that hath breath praise
the Lord ! Hallelujah !" The Rev. PRECENTOR ROGERS. MR. ..."
3. A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis: Containing a Detail of the by Patrick Colquhoun (1806)
"Games of Chance, though stigmatized by the Legislature, encouraged by high-sounding
names, whose houses are opened for purposes odious and unlawful:—The ..."
4. Travels in the United States, Etc.: During 1849 and 1850 by Emmeline Stuart-Wortley (1851)
"... of Macready—Sympathy of the Lady for the Captain of the "Empire"—high-sounding
names of Towns—The Hudson— Hotels at Albany—Description of Albany. ..."
5. The Beginnings of Modern Europe (1250-1450) by Ephraim Emerton (1917)
"He sent messengers to Edward with this high- sounding challenge: '' The King of
France sends us to you to say that he has come hither and is waiting at ..."
6. Roosevelt in the Kansas City Star: War-time Editorials by Theodore Roosevelt (1921)
"high-sounding PHRASES OF MUDDY MEANING OCTOBER 17, 1918 A KEEN observer of what
is now happening in the world writes me that there is very grave danger that ..."
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