An archaic or rare variant of 'haughtiness'; the quality of being haughty.
Older form of 'haughtiness,' using '-ness' suffix on 'haught,' which is itself an archaic variant of 'haughty.' Represents pre-standardization English morphology.
Haughtness is so rare that modern spellcheckers flag it as an error—yet you'd find it in 15th and 16th century texts, showing how word forms evolved as English standardized itself.
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