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haughty, a.|ˈhɔːtɪ|
Forms: α. 6 haltie, haultie, -y, hawtie, -y, 6–7 hautie, -y. β. 6– haughty.
[An extension of haut, haught a., either as in dusk-y, worth-y, or simply by assimilation to doughty, mighty, naughty, weighty, etc.]
1. High in one's own estimation; lofty and disdainful in feeling or demeanour; proud, arrogant, supercilious. (Of persons, their action, speech, etc.)
α1530Palsgr. 315/1 Hawty as one that is proude, haultain. 1563Mirr. Mag., Rich. III, x, Puft vp in pride, so hawtie then I grewe. 1570Satir. Poems Reform. xxi. 55 Hautie wordis. 1659Hammond On Ps. xlv. 4 The prides of the hautiest heathen obdurate hearts. 1667Milton P.L. iv. 858 The Fiend..like a proud Steed reind, went hautie on.
β1598Florio, Orgoglioso, proude, disdainefull, haughtie. 1611Bible Ps. cxxx. 1 Lord, my heart is not haughtie. 1667Milton P.L. v. 852 Whereat rejoic'd Th' Apostat, and more haughty thus repli'd. 1725De Foe Voy. round World (1840) 191 The cruel haughty temper of the Spaniards. 1876Rock Text. Fabr. 105 The humble broom-plant—the haughty Plantagenet's device.
b. fig. Of an appearance that seems to claim or assume superiority; imposing in aspect; grand, stately, dignified: often with some mixture of sense 3.
1585T. Washington tr. Nicholay's Voy iii. v. 78 With their great tufts of feathers upon their heads, they seem in their appearance proude and hawty. 1697Dryden Virg. Georg. iii. 641 His haughty Crest. 1700T. Brown tr. Fresny's Amusem. Ser. & Com. 86 Philosophers build those hauty Edifices they call Systems. 1850W. Irving Mahomet lv. 254 I'll carry the war into yon haughty mountains.
2. Of exalted character, style, or rank; elevated, lofty, eminent; high-minded, aspiring; of exalted courage or bravery. arch.
α1563B. Googe Eglogs, etc. (Arb.) 72 The hawtye verse, that Maro wrote. 1576Fleming Panopl. Epist. 438 Sithence your estate is so hautie and high. 1577–87Holinshed Chron. III. 1171/2 His stoutnesse and haltie courage. 1667Milton P.L. ix. 484 Of courage hautie, and of limb Heroic built.
β1578T. N. tr. Conq. W. India 25 Men of haughtie corage, that no force or strength of Indians can offende. 1590Spenser F.Q. ii. x. 1 Who now shall give unto me words and sound Equall unto this haughty enterprise? 1613Purchas Pilgrimage (1614) 280 These their haughtie attempts were stayed. 1805Scott Last Minstr. vi. xxiii, No haughty feat of arms I tell.
†3. High, lofty (in literal sense). Obs. (Often with some shade of sense 1.)
1570B. Googe Pop. Kingd. iv. (1880) 50 b, From the toppes of hawtie towres. 1576Fleming Panopl. Epist. 272 Plantes as growe in highe mountaines, in loftie and hautie places. Ibid. 288 Others..pufft upp in the pride of their nature, advaunce themselves to the hautie heavens. 1578Mirr. for Mag. ii. Vortiger xiii. (1610) 206 God who rules the haughtie heauen a hygh. 1621G. Sandys Ovid's Met. viii. (1626) 156 In mind they beare Their ancient fall and haughtie places feare.
4. Comb., as haughty-hearted, haughty-minded, haughty-stomached.
1576Fleming Panopl. Epist. 5 Some..report you to be proude and hautie harted. 1605Tryall Chev. i. iii. in Bullen O. Pl. III. 281 Were his power and spirit Ten times more hauty-ventrous. a1777Fawkes tr. Appollon. Rhod., Argonautics iii. (R.), The haughty-minded Pelias. |