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Hauteur vs Lordliness - What's the difference?

hauteur | lordliness | Related terms |

Hauteur is a related term of lordliness.


As nouns the difference between hauteur and lordliness

is that hauteur is haughtiness or arrogance; loftiness while lordliness is the property of being lordly; the bearing or manner of a lord.

hauteur

English

Noun

(-)
  • haughtiness or arrogance; loftiness
  • * 1960 , chapter XII
    • “What's happened, young Herring?” I think for a moment he was about to draw himself up with hauteur and say he would prefer, if we didn't mind, not to discuss his private affairs, but when he was half-way up he caught Aunt Dahlia's eye and returned to position one.
  • * 1992, , Penguin Books, paperback edition, page 31
    • [...] as, indeed, a new subject presented itself now, "Here's our turn!" braking the Toyota and turning the wheel sharply without having had time to signal so, close behind them, an angered motorist sounded his horn, but The Senator took no heed: not out of arrogance or hauteur but, simply, because he took no heed.
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    lordliness

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • The property of being lordly; the bearing or manner of a lord.