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Definition of Haughtiest
1. haughty [adj] - See also: haughty
Lexicographical Neighbors of Haughtiest
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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