"loftily" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From lofty + -ly.",
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      "form": "more loftily",
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      "form": "most loftily",
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          "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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        "To a great height."
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          "ref": "1955, C[live] S[taples] Lewis, The Magician’s Nephew, London: The Bodley Head, →OCLC:",
          "text": "\"I should never dream of calling a kid like you a woman,\" said Digory loftily.",
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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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        "With affectation of grandness."
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  "etymology_text": "From lofty + -ly.",
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          "ref": "1955, C[live] S[taples] Lewis, The Magician’s Nephew, London: The Bodley Head, →OCLC:",
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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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        "With affectation of grandness."
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