altitudinous

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Venetian by birth and rococo by temperament, the 18th century master loved to loft dangling goddesses, altitudinous angels and rafters of neck-craning cherubs.

From Time Magazine Archive

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From Time Magazine Archive

Ensconced upon the more altitudinous seat of authority he swung his lash out with a report like a starting-gun and made his way, with the necessary language, across the open and up Claxton Road.

From The Wrong Woman by Stewart, Charles D.

Kipps, I say, felt himself a creature of outer darkness, an inexcusable intruder in an altitudinous world.

From Kipps The Story of a Simple Soul by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

"It is not that the temperature is excessively altitudinous," responded the Parson, "but the presence of a larger proportion of humidity retards perspiratory exudation."

From A Cadet's Honor Mark Mallory's Heroism by Sinclair, Upton