haughtiness

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Haughtiness is an attitude and characteristic she’s cultivated in pictures such as “Working Girl” and “The Ice Storm,” and there certainly are elements of it in her breakout role, Ellen Ripley of the “Alien” movies.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 5, 2017

I shall bring this Haughtiness to a Penance, you may not like.

From The Old Debauchees. A Comedy (1732) by Fielding, Henry

Haughtiness of the Duke of Guise.The duke goes to Paris.

From Henry IV, Makers of History by Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot)

He is very reserved, and a Person of few Words, which gives him an Air that those who are not conversant with him mistake for Haughtiness.

From The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume I Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels from Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. by P?llnitz, Karl Ludwig von

"Here lies James Haughtiness "Full of high notions about his abilities, or his knowledge, or his family, or his house, or his fortune, or his business, or his dogs, or something.

From The Authoritative Life of General William Booth by Railton, George S. (George Scott)