hautie
English
[edit]Adjective
[edit]hautie (comparative more hautie, superlative most hautie)
- Obsolete spelling of haughty.
- 1590, Edward Daunce, A Briefe Discovrse of the Spanish State vvith a Dialogue Annexed Intituled Philobasilis, London: […] Richard Field, page 9:
- The late Prince of Orenge hath declared their iniurie to Don Anthonio for Portingall, and God himſelfe, (wherein we haue to boaſt and be thankfull) hath with hautie ſtile penned our Apologie for England:
- The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], 1611, →OCLC, Proverbs 16:18: “Pride goeth before destruction: and an hautie spirit before a fall.”
- 1613, William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling, An Elegie on the Death of Prince Henrie:
- Is it that God euen then, would hautie thoughts disbend?