Haughtiness

"Haughtiness," mused Ruth, "is merely a cloak to selfishness, or the want of a proper spirit of humanity."

Other Things Being Equal Emma Wolf 1898

Majesty heard she daily shed for the Queen's Absence; as also to endeavour to soften that Roman Haughtiness which presided in her Heart, and make it flexible to his amorous Proposals.

Exilius 2008

Haughtiness is often mistaken for greatness (grandeur).

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

As to the charge of Haughtiness I am certain that is a mistake, for if I know any thing of Lysander, he has as little of that in his disposition, as he has of Ill nature.

Letter from Abigail Smith to John Adams, 30 April 1764 1963

Comptroller & c. charged them with Timidity, Haughtiness, Arbitrary

John Adams diary 15, 30 January 1768, 10 August 1769 - 22 August 1770 1961

Ld. Shelbourne himself, and to their Agent, Mr. Debert, in order to remove those slanders and aspersions, in which their sense of the Ingratitude, Haughtiness and Cruelty of the

John Adams diary 13, 1 March - 31 December 1766, March 1767 1961

Haughtiness of the eyes is the enlarging of the heart: the lamp of the wicked is sin.

The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Old Testament — Part 2 Anonymous

Haughtiness of the eyes is the enlarging of the heart: the lamp of the wicked is sin.

The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 22: Proverbs The Challoner Revision

-- Haughtiness is the reverse of true greatness; therefore it staggers me to behold it in the former.

Barford Abbey Susannah Minific Gunning

Haughtiness is usually the outward sign of a great inner self-consciousness.

The Etiquette of To-day Edith B. Ordway