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high-stomached

Adjective CEFR C2

Definitions

Having a lofty spirit; haughty.

archaic

Examples

“Then call⟳ them to our preſence face⟳ to face⟳, / And frowning brow to brow, our ſelues will heare / Th’accuſer, and the accuſed, freely ſpeake; / High ſtomack'd are they both, and full of ire, / In rage, deafe as the ſea; haſtie as fire.”
“They, a chosen people, a vessel of Him they call⟳ Jehovah, ay, and a vessel of Baal, and a vessel of Astoreth, and a vessel of the gods of the Egyptians—a high-stomached people, greedy of aught that brought them wealth and power.”
“Besides, the art of burning to bed-rock still lay⟳ in the womb of the future, and the men of Forty-Mile, shut⟳ in by the long Arctic winter, grew high-stomached with over-eating and enforced idleness”
“Then it was the men became high-stomached, and revived ancient quarrels, and crossed the divides to the south to kill⟳ the Pellys, and to the west that they might sit⟳ by the dead fires of the Tananas.”

CEFR level

C2
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This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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