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loftily

loftily adverb: to a great height.

Adverb

loftily (comparative more loftily, superlative most loftily)

  1. To a great height.
    • […] trees, most of them bearing blossom or fruit, rose loftily into the air, and extended their broad leaves like parasols to the sun.1836, Allan Cunningham, Lord Roldan, page 157
  2. With affectation of grandness.
    • "I should never dream of calling a kid like you a woman," said Digory loftily.1955, C[live] S[taples] Lewis, The Magician’s Nephew, London: The Bodley Head, →OCLC
    • "Can you play the violin?" asked Rosemary loftily, out of a chumbling refined mouth.1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 475

Forms of loftily

comparativemore loftily
superlativemost loftily

Origin of loftily

From lofty + -ly.

Questions about loftily

What does loftily mean?
Loftily means to a great height.
What part of speech is loftily?
Loftily is an adverb.

Words near loftily in the dictionary

  1. loftheads
  2. Lofthouse
  3. Lofthouses
  4. loftier
  5. loftiest
  6. loftily
  7. Loftin
  8. loftiness
  9. loftinesses
  10. lofting
  11. lofting iron

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