LOFT'INESS, n.
1. Height; elevation in place or position; altitude; as the loftiness of a mountain.
2. Pride; haughtiness.
Augustus and Tiberius had loftiness enough in their tempers -
3. Elevation of attitude or mien; as loftiness of carriage.
4. Sublimity; elevation of diction or sentiment.
Three poets in three distant ages born; the first in loftiness of thought surpass'd; the next in majesty; in both the last.
