All 5 Uses of
haughty
in
Faust
- If Man, that microcosmic fool, can see Himself a whole so frequently, Part of the Part am I, once All, in primal Night,— Part of the Darkness which brought forth the Light, The haughty Light, which now disputes the space, And claims of Mother Night her ancient place.†
- They're of a noble house, that's very clear: Haughty and discontented they appear.†
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- In night and dew to lie upon the mountains; All Heaven and Earth in rapture penetrating; Thyself to Godhood haughtily inflating; To grub with yearning force through Earth's dark marrow, Compress the six days' work within thy bosom narrow,— To taste, I know not what, in haughty power, Thine own ecstatic life on all things shower, Thine earthly self behind thee cast, And then the lofty instinct, thus— (With a gesture:) at last,— daren't say how—to pluck the final flower!†
- In night and dew to lie upon the mountains; All Heaven and Earth in rapture penetrating; Thyself to Godhood haughtily inflating; To grub with yearning force through Earth's dark marrow, Compress the six days' work within thy bosom narrow,— To taste, I know not what, in haughty power, Thine own ecstatic life on all things shower, Thine earthly self behind thee cast, And then the lofty instinct, thus— (With a gesture:) at last,— daren't say how—to pluck the final flower!†
- He walks with haughty paces: He snuffles all he snuffle can: "He scents the Jesuits' traces."†
Definition:
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(haughty) arrogant or condescending (acting superior or self-important)