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highness

English

Alternative forms

  • highnesse (archaic)
  • 'ighness (pronunciation spelling)

Etymology

From Middle English hyghnesse; equivalent to high +? -ness.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?ha?n?s/
  • Rhymes: -a?n?s

Noun

highness (usually uncountable, plural highnesses)

  1. The state of being high.
    • 1672, George Swinnock, The Incomparableness of God
      'It is as high as heaven, what canst thou do?' It is as the highnesses of heaven: take all the heights and elevations, all the spheres and altitudes of heaven, and try if thou canst reach them with thy short arm; yea, climb up the highest storeys, the loftiest pinnacles, []

Translations

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patronizing

English

Adjective

patronizing (comparative more patronizing, superlative most patronizing)

  1. Offensively condescending.

Synonyms

  • condescending

Translations

Verb

patronizing

  1. present participle of patronize

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