Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Haughtiness in bearing and attitude; arrogance.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Haughty feeling or bearing; arrogant manner or spirit.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Haughty manner or spirit; haughtiness; pride; arrogance.
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- noun
haughtiness orarrogance ;loftiness
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun overbearing pride evidenced by a superior manner toward inferiors
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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I will not say that her peculiar position did not produce something of an independent manner which some called hauteur, and others exclusiveness.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 2, August, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various
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She recalled his hauteur and studious coldness towards herself, his air of deep understanding and mastery, his magic look of wizardly youth, his eloquence, his immense self-possession, his mysterious connection with Cleopatra's indisposition and recovery.
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A haughty young lady in the dining-room, Birdie Callahan, in her stiffly starched white, but beneath the icy crust of her hauteur was a molten mass of good humor and friendliness.
Fanny Herself Edna Ferber 1926
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A haughty young lady in the dining-room, Birdie Callahan, in her stiffly starched white, but beneath the icy crust of her hauteur was a molten mass of good humor and friendliness.
Fanny Herself 1917
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Victor heard him, and put up his eyeglass in amazement; but he, in his turn, had only a shirt on, and the hauteur was a failure.
Comedies of Courtship Anthony Hope 1898
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That "hauteur," however, has proved beneficial for the institution he has directed for almost a third of a century.
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He still bore himself with pride and dignity, but without that hauteur which is said to have characterized him when he declared in the Senate that he was an ambassador from
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A long, oaken table occupied the centre of the room, and round this in groups, seated and standing, were a score of men, all with swords at their sides; bearing, many of them, that air of careless hauteur which is supposed to be a characteristic of noble birth.
The Strong Arm Robert Barr 1881
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We believe it to be owing to the influence of the causes we have noticed, that this manner, so often ridiculed by the French, under the name of "hauteur" and
Travels in France during the years 1814-15 Comprising a residence at Paris, during the stay of the allied armies, and at Aix, at the period of the landing of Bonaparte, in two volumes. Archibald Alison 1829
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"amiable and unassuming," and though one of the first, if not the first lady at Vienna, as not at all partaking of the insolence and hauteur which is by some ascribed to the society of that capital.
The Letters of Queen Victoria, Volume 1 (of 3), 1837-1843) A Selection from Her Majesty's Correspondence Between the Years 1837 and 1861 Queen of Great Britain Victoria 1860
brtom commented on the word hauteur
"There was an innate refinement, a languid queenly hauteur about Gerty which was unmistakably evidenced in her delicate hands and higharched instep."
Joyce, Ulysses, 13
January 14, 2007
RevBrently commented on the word hauteur
From p. 21 of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby: "The intense vitality that had been so remarkable in the garage was converted into impressive hauteur."
September 29, 2012