0 the quality of being very serious and important, or morally good:
We must appreciate the loftiness and nobleness of the task which he set for himself.
His refusal to even discuss her ideas came across as loftiness and condescension.
For all his loftiness of purpose, he did not take himself that seriously.
Her natural loftiness of spirit shows when she is threatened and does not waver.
The speech sounded good in French, which conveys a certain loftiness.
He does sometimes slip into a lordly professorial loftiness.
"And who are YOU?" she retorted, with some loftiness.
Given the loftiness of the hall, the acoustics were quite good.
Such loftiness would be laughable were the future of more than 600 people not at stake.
The very loftiness of our aims should increase the scope of their appeal.
