Hauteur
[əʊ'tɜː]
Definition
(n.) Haughty manner or spirit; haughtiness; pride; arrogance.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [Fr.] Haughtiness, arrogance, loftiness, stateliness, disdain, superciliousness, conceit, pride, self-importance, self-conceit.
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Definition
n. haughtiness: arrogance.—adj. Haut (Milt.) haughty.—ns. Haut-goé¹ flavour spice a taint: a highly seasoned dish; Haut-pas a dais; Haut′-relief′ high relief.—Haut ton high fashion people of high fashion.
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Examples
- Permit me to judge for myself, said Miss Fanshawe, with hauteur. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- First she shrank from remark; and, if persisted in, she, with her own peculiar _hauteur_, repelled it. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- I don't understand you, said Crispin, with some hauteur. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Pray, sir, admire in her _hauteur_ a careful improvement on your own coolness. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Now the mother's natural hauteur became self-conscious, and the girls shrieked again. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- She rose and said with a touch of indignation as well as hauteur-- You are much the happier of us two, Mr. Ladislaw, to have nothing. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Yes, said Eustacia, with a little more hauteur. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- No pride, no hauteur, and your sister just the sameall sweetness and affability! Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- No, thank you, said Lydgate, with some hauteur. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- That may be my secret, rejoined Dr. John briefly, but with no sort of hauteur: he seemed quite to understand the Rosine or grisette character. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
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