Both Uses of
haughty
in
Nature, by Emerson
- Can a musical note be so lofty, so haughtily beautiful!†
*haughtily = condescendingly (in a superior or self-important way)
- The muse herself betrays her son, and enhances the gift of wealthy and well-born beauty, by a radiation out of the air, and clouds, and forests that skirt the road,—a certain haughty favor, as if from patrician genii to patricians, a kind of aristocracy in nature, a prince of the power of the air.†
haughty = arrogant
Definition:
arrogant or condescending (acting superior or self-important)