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haughty
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- Nothing could be more gracefully majestic than his step and manner, had they not been marked by a predominant air of haughtiness, easily acquired by the exercise of unresisted authority.†
Chpt 4haughtiness = arrogance or condescension (acting superior or self-important)
- Meanwhile the Abbot and Cedric continued their discourse upon hunting; the Lady Rowena seemed engaged in conversation with one of her attendant females; and the haughty Templar, whose eye wandered from the Jew to the Saxon beauty, revolved in his mind thoughts which appeared deeply to interest him.†
Chpt 5haughty = arrogant
- Those who remarked in the physiognomy of the Prince a dissolute audacity, mingled with extreme haughtiness and indifference to the feelings of others could not yet deny to his countenance that sort of comeliness which belongs to an open set of features, well formed by nature, modelled by art to the usual rules of courtesy, yet so far frank and honest, that they seemed as if they disclaimed to conceal the natural workings of the soul.†
Chpt 7haughtiness = arrogance or condescension (acting superior or self-important)
- "I entertained you, sir," said John, reining up his palfrey haughtily, "for my follower, but not for my counsellor."†
Chpt 8 *haughtily = condescendingly (in a superior or self-important way)
- John's curiosity was excited by the mystery observed by the stranger; and, being already displeased with the issue of the tournament, in which the challengers whom he favoured had been successively defeated by one knight, he answered haughtily to the marshals, "By the light of Our Lady's brow, this same knight hath been disinherited as well of his courtesy as of his lands, since he desires to appear before us without uncovering his face.†
Chpt 9
- "It is well," said Prince John, haughtily; "although unused to such refusals, we will endeavour to digest our banquet as we may, though ungraced by the most successful in arms, and his elected Queen of Beauty."†
Chpt 9
- Prepare yourself for the Prince's festival: we have been summoned thither with unwonted circumstance of honour and of courtesy, such as the haughty Normans have rarely used to our race since the fatal day of Hastings.†
Chpt 18haughty = arrogant
- "No, Sir Knight," said the Templar, haughtily.†
Chpt 21haughtily = condescendingly (in a superior or self-important way)
- Her haughtiness and habit of domination was, therefore, a fictitious character, induced over that which was natural to her, and it deserted her when her eyes were opened to the extent of her own danger, as well as that of her lover and her guardian; and when she found her will, the slightest expression of which was wont to command respect and attention, now placed in opposition to that of a man of a strong, fierce, and determined mind, who possessed the advantage over her, and was resolved to use it, she quailed before him.†
Chpt 23haughtiness = arrogance or condescension (acting superior or self-important)
- I would she had retained her original haughtiness of disposition, or that I had a larger share of Front-de-Boeuf's thrice-tempered hardness of heart!†
Chpt 23
- These reflections had tamed and brought down to a pitch of sounder judgment a temper, which, under other circumstances, might have waxed haughty, supercilious, and obstinate.†
Chpt 24haughty = arrogant
- Cedric, with some difficulty, compelled himself to make obeisance to the haughty Baron, who returned his courtesy with a slight inclination of the head.†
Chpt 27
- "Front-de-Boeuf!" answered the Jewess; "his men rush to the rescue, headed by the haughty Templar—their united force compels the champion to pause—They drag Front-de-Boeuf within the walls."†
Chpt 29
- Many a haughty step bends to your halls, Many a helmed head.†
Chpt 31
- "I seek no safety for myself," said Prince John, haughtily; "that I could secure by a word spoken to my brother.†
Chpt 34haughtily = condescendingly (in a superior or self-important way)
- "Counsel was never bewrayed by me," said De Bracy, haughtily, "nor must the name of villain be coupled with mine!"†
Chpt 34
- —"Jew," continued the haughty old man, "mark me.†
Chpt 35haughty = arrogant
- The devotion of the Knight to Rebecca's defence was exaggerated beyond the bounds, not only of discretion, but even of the most frantic excess of chivalrous zeal; and his deference to what she said, even although her language was often severe and upbraiding, was painted as carried to an excess, which, in a man of his haughty temper, seemed almost preternatural.†
Chpt 37
- "'Tis false—I will myself take arms in her behalf," answered the Templar, haughtily; "and, should I do so, I think, Malvoisin, that thou knowest not one of the Order, who will keep his saddle before the point of my lance."†
Chpt 39haughtily = condescendingly (in a superior or self-important way)
- With what joy will the haughty Richard hear the news, that the knight that set him hard in Palestine, and well-nigh darkened his renown, has lost fame and honour for a Jewish girl, whom he could not even save by so costly a sacrifice!†
Chpt 39haughty = arrogant
- "Well, I will resume my resolution," replied the haughty Templar.†
Chpt 39
Definitions:
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(1)
(haughty) arrogant or condescending (acting superior or self-important)
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)