altitudinous

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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)

No altitudinous conversation of the kind that grows no crops.

From Over the Pass by Palmer, Frederick

"It is not that the temperature is excessively altitudinous," responded the Parson, "but the presence of a larger proportion of humidity retards perspiratory exudation."

From A Cadet's Honor Mark Mallory's Heroism by Sinclair, Upton