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hauteur
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synonyms: grandiloquence, supercilious, fustian, turgid, high-toned ???
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Definition:haughty manner; arrogance
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Uses:
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
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The effect was immediate. A deeper shade of hauteur overspread his features, but he said not a word, and Elizabeth, though blaming herself for her own weakness, could not go on.
Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice (1813)
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M. de Charlus survived his aristocratic hauteur which one had supposed to be embodied in it.
Marcel Proust. In Search of Lost Time [volume 7]
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Nathan had told her, some months earlier, in a voice filled with hauteur, that he did not read any fiction published after 1930. "It all went downhill after the thirties," he said.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Americanah, p.401 (2013)
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“He! he! he!” replied the Devil faintly, drawing himself up with an air of hauteur.
Edgar Allan Poe. The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 4: The Duc de L'Omelette (1832)
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I never seemed in his way; he did not take fits of chilling hauteur:
Charlotte Brontë. Jane Eyre (1847)
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