"high-blown" meaning in English

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Adjective

Forms: more high-blown [comparative], most high-blown [superlative]
Head templates: {{en-adj}} high-blown (comparative more high-blown, superlative most high-blown)
  1. (archaic) elevated (normally said of pride or conceit) Tags: archaic
    Sense id: en-high-blown-en-adj-Lkq9P0qI Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries
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          "ref": "1828 May 15, [Walter Scott], chapter XXII, in Chronicles of the Canongate. Second Series. […] (The Fair Maid of Perth), volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] [Ballantyne and Co.] for Cadell and Co.; London: Simpkin and Marshall, →OCLC:",
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          "ref": "1887, H[enry] Rider Haggard, chapter I, in Allan Quatermain:",
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