Haughtiness

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. Highness; loftiness.
  • noun. The quality or character of being haughty, proud., or arrogant; supercilious bearing; arrogance.
  • noun. Synonyms Pride, Presumption, etc. (see arrogance); contemptuousness, hauteur, lordliness, rudeness.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The quality of being haughty; disdain; arrogance.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The state or property of being haughty; arrogance, snobbery.
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  • noun. overbearing pride evidenced by a superior manner toward inferiors
  • Word Usage
    "They grew heartily weary, and fiercely impatient of restraint, and though the firm, calm, steady strictness of the Knight was far preferable to the rude familiarity and furious passions of many a Castellane, there were many of the men-at-arms who, though not actually engaged in the conspiracy, were impatient of what they called his haughtiness and rigidity."
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