a. [ See Haughty. ] High; elevated; hence, haughty; proud. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. [ From Haughty. ] In a haughty manner; arrogantly. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ For hauteinness. See Haughty. ] The quality of being haughty; disdain; arrogance.

Syn. -- Arrogance; disdain; contemptuousness; superciliousness; loftiness. -- Haughtiness, Arrogance, Disdain. Haughtiness denotes the expression of conscious and proud superiority; arrogance is a disposition to claim for one's self more than is justly due, and enforce it to the utmost; disdain in the exact reverse of condescension toward inferiors, since it expresses and desires others to feel how far below ourselves we consider them. A person is haughty in disposition and demeanor; arrogant in his claims of homage and deference; disdainful even in accepting the deference which his haughtiness leads him arrogantly to exact. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Compar. Haughtier superl. Haughtiest. ] [ OE. hautein, F. hautain, fr. haut high, OF. also halt, fr. L. altus. See Altitude. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. High; lofty; bold. [ Obs. or Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

To measure the most haughty mountain's height. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

Equal unto this haughty enterprise. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Disdainfully or contemptuously proud; arrogant; overbearing. [ 1913 Webster ]

A woman of a haughty and imperious nature. Clarendon. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Indicating haughtiness; as, a haughty carriage. [ 1913 Webster ]

Satan, with vast and haughty strides advanced,
Came towering. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]