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

Toward the end of summer, Charles-Norton found himself insensibly altering the glorious routine of his altitudinous existence.

From The Trimming of Goosie by Hopper, James

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)

Or if he does his idea of Christianity is not so altitudinous that he can stand on its apex and keep the flies off the man in the moon.

From Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 12 by Brann, William Cowper