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Synonyms for lofty

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Synonyms for lofty

imposingly high

exceedingly dignified in form, tone, or style

raised to or occupying a high position or rank

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Synonyms for lofty

of imposing height

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having or displaying great dignity or nobility

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"With a loftier morality than that of the Epicureans, and a sterner sense of man's duties, Zeno and the Stoic philosophers prescribed suicide in certain cases to their followers.
Behind the Castle swells a great dome-shaped hill, forest-clad, and beyond that a nobler and loftier one.
Here, after gradually failing in loftier hopes, he had "read" with divers who had lacked opportunities or neglected them, and had refurbished divers others for special occasions, and had turned his acquirements to the account of literary compilation and correction, and on such means, added to some very moderate private resources, still maintained the house I saw.
"Crimes are imputed to you which had brought down far loftier heads than yours, monsieur," said the cardinal.
Let the reader picture to himself the hall of the vastest cathedral he ever stood in, windowless indeed, but dimly lighted from above, presumably by shafts connected with the outer air and driven in the roof, which arched away a hundred feet above our heads, and he will get some idea of the size of the enormous cave in which we found ourselves, with the difference that this cathedral designed by nature was loftier and wider than any built by man.
Hatfield once more to her feet; but finding them unsuccessful, she repaid his haughty indifference with still loftier scorn, and spoke of him with as much disdain and detestation as she had formerly done of his curate.
.....MODERN NATURE HOW TO LIVE Daring is the band that aims at the brain as keenly as the heart, but the debut album from indie three-piece Modern Nature has an unapologetic intellectual bent that will surely endear it to loftier fans of indie music.
Thus Lion's focus must shift between the loftier issues and those at street level, like his other point of pride: a five-year plan for replacing the city's crumbling asphalt sidewalks with paver blocks.
But the former Wales international harbours loftier ambitions of leading Shrewsbury back to the higher reaches of League One.
Loftier people have to stoop and listen, Before children's dreams are quashed.
The other is a "squishier statistic with a loftier goal, called "quality watch time," added Bloomberg.
IANS New Delhi Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday asked the people to seek "loftier goals" with "renewed zeal" in the coming year as he recalled the various strides India made in 2018.
For example: "The young women we surveyed show greater awareness and loftier financial goals overall, but parents clearly have more work to do in order to teach their kids positive financial habits early," said Carrie Schwab-Pomerantz, President, Charles Schwab Foundation, and Senior Vice President, Charles Schwab & Co., Inc.
The loftier charge came as a result of US tax reform introduced by Trump in December 2017.