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overlofty

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Etymology

From over- +‎ lofty.

Adjective

overlofty (comparative more overlofty, superlative most overlofty)

  1. Excessively lofty.
    • 1997, Masaki Mori, Epic Grandeur: Toward a Comparative Poetics of the Epic, page 110:
      […] Prometheus Unbound would either have lost its sublimity or have collapsed to pieces because of its own overlofty conception.

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