hault

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adjective

Lofty; haughty.

OriginOld French hault ← French haut →
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Meanings

hault1

adjectivehault (comparative more hault, superlative most hault)

comparative more hault · superlative most hault

  1. obsoleteLofty; haughty.

    Through support of countenance proud and hault

    1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
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    Ixions sonnes, who was so stout of courage and so hault, As that he durst on Junos love attempt to give assault.

    1567, Ovid, “The Twelfth Booke”, in Arthur Golding, transl., The XV. Bookes of P. Ouidius Naso, Entytuled Metamorphosis, […], London: […] Willyam Seres […], →OCLC

hault2

verbhault (third-person singular simple present haults, present participle haulting, simple past and past participle haulted)

present singular third person haults · participle present haulting · participle past haulted · past haulted

  1. obsoleteObsolete spelling of halt.

Origin

  1. Frenchhaut
  2. Old Frenchhault
  3. Englishhault

Old French hault, French haut. See haughty.

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APA

hault. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hault

MLA

“hault.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hault. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “hault,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hault.

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