altitudinousnessとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

altitudinousness (plural altitudinousnesses)

1. the quality of being very tall, high, or lofty.

   Even in a city synonymous with tall skyscrapers, the tower was exceptional in its altitudinousness.

   • 1850, Ferdinand Werne, “Matta Lokono, and the Baris”, in Romance of Modern Travel: A Year-Book of Adventure‎, London: David Bogue, page 219:

     He was attended on board by Dogolè and a number of dignitaries, from whom he was, in the first instance, distinguishable by still more imposing altitudinousness.

   • 1880, Charles Taber Congdon, Reminiscences of a Journalist, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, page 64:

     ...Mr. Bancroft improved the circumstance with a surprising mixture of altitudinousness and familiarity.

   • 1900, William Walton, Paris: From the Earliest Period to the Present Day, volume VII, Philadelphia: George Barrie & Son, page 124:

     ...the low truncated towers of Notre-Dame remain a landmark in the midst of this general un-altitudinousness.

   • 1937, Dorothea Grace Malm, Problems of Form in the Collectivist Novel: Romains, Huxley, Dos Passos, Wasserman, University of Minnesota, page 9:

     It is the altitudinousness of life, the endless stream of it which dwarfs individual climaxes...

   • 2024, Mohamed Abulinein, “Introduction to the ST Book of 'An-Naẓarāt' ”, in The Reflections: An English Translation of Mustafa Lufti al-Manfaluti's 'An-Naẓarāt' – Part I, Austin Macauley:

     ...familiarizing themselves with which is often attributed to pusillanimity, banality and platitudinousness of the soul rather than to the loftiness, altitudinousness and perfection thereof...