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Definition of Loftiest
1. lofty [adj] - See also: lofty
Lexicographical Neighbors of Loftiest
Literary usage of Loftiest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Confessions of an English Opium-eater by Thomas De Quincey (1913)
"... orchard at the foot of Fairfield—our loftiest Grasmere mountain. Thither moved
at once Barbara bird. By that time in May, in any far southern county, ..."
2. Handy-book of Literary Curiosities by William Shepard Walsh (1892)
"To reach from the plain the loftiest summits of an Alpine country, many inferior
eminences have to be scaled and relinquished ; but the labor is not lost. ..."
3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"These truths are set down not in dogmatic form, but now in the simple and childlike
lyric yearning of the ingenuous soul, again in the loftiest and most ..."
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