"loftily" meaning in English

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        "2": "lofty",
        "3": "ly",
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  "etymology_text": "From lofty + -ly.",
  "forms": [
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      "form": "more loftily",
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    {
      "form": "most loftily",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adv",
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          "ref": "1836, Allan Cunningham, Lord Roldan, page 157",
          "text": "[…] trees, most of them bearing blossom or fruit, rose loftily into the air, and extended their broad leaves like parasols to the sun.",
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      "glosses": [
        "To a great height."
      ],
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          "name": "English terms suffixed with -ly (adverbial)",
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        {
          "ref": "1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 475",
          "text": "\"Can you play the violin?\" asked Rosemary loftily, out of a chumbling refined mouth.",
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        }
      ],
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        "With affectation of grandness."
      ],
      "id": "en-loftily-en-adv-o97MBQWE"
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  "word": "loftily"
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  "etymology_text": "From lofty + -ly.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more loftily",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most loftily",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "pos": "adv",
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        {
          "ref": "1836, Allan Cunningham, Lord Roldan, page 157",
          "text": "[…] trees, most of them bearing blossom or fruit, rose loftily into the air, and extended their broad leaves like parasols to the sun.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To a great height."
      ]
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        {
          "ref": "1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 475",
          "text": "\"Can you play the violin?\" asked Rosemary loftily, out of a chumbling refined mouth.",
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        }
      ],
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        "With affectation of grandness."
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  "word": "loftily"
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