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单词 to be in altitudes
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to be in (one's) altitudes
8. In plural. An exalted or excited condition or mood; a superior or elevated state. Frequently in to be in (one's) altitudes Obsolete.Common in the 18th cent.
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the mind > emotion > pride > haughtiness or disdainfulness > [noun] > manner or appearance
altitudes?a1625
grand air1672
?a1625 Lawes of Candy ii. i, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Ggg4/2 This Woman's in the altitudes.
1683 J. Crowne City Politiques iv. 53 I affronted..his Court, and in my drunken Altitudes have endeavour'd to scour the whole Creation of Souls.
a1734 R. North Examen (1740) 258 If we would see him in his altitudes, we must go back to the House of Commons..there he cuts and slashes at another rate.
1748 S. Richardson Clarissa V. xiv. 152 From the nature of their conversation, there was no room for altitudes.
1782 S. Johnson Let. 20 Dec. (1994) IV. 99 While You were in all your altitudes, at the opera.
1803 Lett. Miss Riversdale III. 7 You are getting into your English altitudes.
1861 Littell's Living Age Apr.–June 490/1 Joseph Scaliger said of Scioppius..that when he got into his altitudes he was like a monkey getting up a pole.
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