Tuesday, August 4, 2015

KJV WORD OF THE DAY











Loftiness

LOFT'INESSnoun
1. Height; elevation in place or position; altitude; as the loftiness of a mountain.
2. Pride; haughtiness.
Augustus and Tiberius had loftiness enough in their tempers -
3. Elevation of attitude or mien; as loftiness of carriage.
4. Sublimity; elevation of diction or sentiment.
Three poets in three distant ages born; the first in loftiness of thought surpass'd; the next in majesty; in both the last.
First occurrence in the Bible(KJV): Isaiah 2:17 And the loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall be made low: and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day.



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