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loftiest
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a. (en-superlativelofty)
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Lofty \Loft"y\, a. [Compar. Loftier ; superl. Loftiest .] Lifted high up; having great height; towering; high. See lofty Lebanon his head advance. --Pope. Fig.: Elevated in character, rank, dignity, spirit, bearing, language, etc.; exalted; noble; stately; ...
Usage examples of loftiest.
But as soon as an Helepolis had been constructed, which could engage on equal terms with the loftiest ramparts, the tremendous aspect of a moving turret, that would leave no hope of resistance or mercy, terrified the defenders of the citadel into an humble submission.
But behind the bordering cliffs of ice, rising in places a thousand feet above the level of the sea, and towering farther inland so high that this region was, in mean elevation, the loftiest on the planet, nothing but ice could be seen.
You are all aware that the vast table-land of Tibet is the loftiest region upon the globe.
That is 511 feet higher than the loftiest mountain in the Appalachians.
A reddish-brown mass of rock, rising abruptly out of the blue water, really a kind of crown in form, but not more than a couple of square rods in extent, and about three feet high at its loftiest point.
They crossed the Pamirs and the Hindu-Kush, the place where the Caspian Sea had been swallowed up in the universal ocean, and ran over Ararat, which three months before had put them into such fearful danger, but whose loftiest summit now lay twelve thousand feet beneath their keel.
Only he holds the proud distinction for certain important phases of that past, of being the loftiest of the singers life has yet given voice to.
But the people, more especially in the East, is disposed to forgive, and even to applaud, the cruelty which strikes at the loftiest heads.
For though their progenitors, the builders of Babel, must doubtless, by their tower, have intended to rear the loftiest mast-head in all Asia, or Africa either.
Out from the centre of the sea, poor Pip turned his crisp, curling, black head to the sun, another lonely castaway, though the loftiest and the brightest.
Verily, to the loftiest height had I to fly, to find again the well of delight!
And this, if I am not mistaken, will be the most difficult part of my task, and will be worthy of the loftiest argument.
The gods occupy the loftiest region, men the lowest, the demons the middle region.