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

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

"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

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)