altitudinous

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Venetian by birth and rococo by temperament, the 18th century master loved to loft dangling goddesses, altitudinous angels and rafters of neck-craning cherubs.

From Time Magazine Archive

Example from Joyce: ''The Ondt was a welltall fellow, raumybult and abelboobied, bynear saw altitudinous wee a schelling in kopfers.

From Time Magazine Archive

Or if he does his idea of Christianity is not so altitudinous that he can stand on its apex and keep the flies off the man in the moon.

From Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 12 by Brann, William Cowper

Kipps, I say, felt himself a creature of outer darkness, an inexcusable intruder in an altitudinous world.

From Kipps The Story of a Simple Soul by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

You would not risk your neck to read My much too altitudinous screed, And I, chagrined and half-perplexed, Had missed you when I missed my text— Get Next.

From Impertinent Poems by Cooke, Edmund Vance