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Word Meanings - VERTICALITY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The quality or state of being vertical; verticalness. The different points of the verticality. Sir T. Browne.

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  • ASCENT
    1. The act of rising; motion upward; rise; a mounting upward; as, he made a tedious ascent; the ascent of vapors from the earth. To him with swift ascent he up returned. Milton. 2. The way or means by which one ascends. 3. An eminence, hill, or
  • EMINENCE
    1. That which is eminent or lofty; a high ground or place; a height. Without either eminences or cavities. Dryden. The temple of honor ought to be seated on an eminence. Burke. 2. An elevated condition among men; a place or station above men in
  • LOFTINESS
    The state or quality of being lofty.
  • HEIGHT
    AS. heáh, fr. heah high; akin to D. hoogte, Sw. höjd, Dan. höide, 1. The condition of being high; elevated position. Behold the height of the stars, how high they are! Job xxii. 12. 2. The distance to which anything rises above its foot, above
  • HEIGHTEN
    1. To make high; to raise higher; to elevate. 2. To carry forward; to advance; to increase; to augment; to aggravate; to intensify; to render more conspicuous; -- used of things, good or bad; as, to heighten beauty; to heighten a flavor or a tint.
  • VERTICALITY
    The quality or state of being vertical; verticalness. The different points of the verticality. Sir T. Browne.
  • ALTITUDE
    The elevation of a point, or star, or other celestial object, above the horizon, measured by the arc of a vertical circle intercepted between such point and the horizon. It is either true or apparent; true when measured from the rational or real
  • HEIGHTENER
    One who, or that which, heightens.
  • ELEVATION
    The distance of a celestial object above the horizon, or the arc of a vertical circle intercepted between it and the horizon; altitude; as, the elevation of the pole, or of a star. (more info) 1. The act of raising from a lower place, condition,
  • TALLNESS
    The quality or state of being tall; height of stature.
  • DEPASCENT
    Feeding.
  • ADNASCENT
    Growing to or on something else. "An adnascent plant." Evelyn.
  • REASCENT
    A returning ascent or ascension; acclivity. Cowper.
  • PREEMINENCE
    The quality or state of being preëminent; superiority in prominence or in excellence; distinction above others in quality, rank, etc.; rarely, in a bad sense, superiority or notoriety in evil; as, preëminence in honor. The preëminence
  • RELEVATION
    A raising or lifting up.
  • SUPEREMINENCE; SUPEREMINENCY
    The quality or state of being supereminent; distinguished eminence; as, the supereminence of Cicero as an orator, or Lord Chatham as a statesman. Ayliffe. He was not forever beset with the consciousness of his own supereminence. Prof. Wilson.
  • CONNASCENT
    Born together; produced at the same time. Craig.
  • VIOLASCENT
    Violescent.
  • RENASCENT
    1. Springing or rising again into being; being born again, or reproduced. 2. See Renaissant.
  • ENASCENT
    Coming into being; nascent. Bp. Warburton.
  • AHEIGHT
    Aloft; on high. "Look up aheight." Shak.
  • NASCENT
    Evolving; being evolved or produced. Nascent state , the supposed instantaneous or momentary state of an uncombined atom or radical just separated from one compound acid, and not yet united with another, -- a hypothetical condition implying

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