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high-stomached

high-stomached adjective: having a lofty spirit; haughty.

Adjective

high-stomached (comparative more high-stomached, superlative most high-stomached)

  1. (archaic) Having a lofty spirit; haughty.
    • Then call them to our preſence face to face, / And frowning brow to brow, our ſelues will heare / Th’accuſer, and the accuſed, freely ſpeake; / High ſtomack'd are they both, and full of ire, / In rage, deafe as the ſea; haſtie as fire.1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to...
    • They, a chosen people, a vessel of Him they call Jehovah, ay, and a vessel of Baal, and a vessel of Astoreth, and a vessel of the gods of the Egyptians—a high-stomached people, greedy of aught that brought them wealth and power.1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC

Examples of high-stomached in a sentence

  • Besides, the art of burning to bed-rock still lay in the womb of the future, and the men of Forty-Mile, shut in by the long Arctic winter, grew high-stomached with over-eating and enforced idleness1900 April 7, Jack London, “(please specify the page number(s))”, in The Son of the Wolf: Tales of the Far North, Boston, Mass.; New York...
  • Then it was the men became high-stomached, and revived ancient quarrels, and crossed the divides to the south to kill the Pellys, and to the west that they might sit by the dead fires of the Tananas.1901 March, Jack London, “The Law of Life”, in Children of the Frost, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co....

Forms of high-stomached

comparativemore high-stomached
superlativemost high-stomached

Questions about high-stomached

What does high-stomached mean?
High-stomached means having a lofty spirit; haughty.
How do you use high-stomached in a sentence?
Besides, the art of burning to bed-rock still lay in the womb of the future, and the men of Forty-Mile, shut in by the long Arctic winter, grew high-stomached with over-eating and enforced idleness
What part of speech is high-stomached?
High-stomached is an adjective.

Words near high-stomached in the dictionary

  1. high-steps
  2. high-stick
  3. high-sticked
  4. high-sticking
  5. high-sticks
  6. high-stomached
  7. high-strung
  8. high-support
  9. high-T
  10. high-tail
  11. high-tail it

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