hauteur

For all his reputation for hauteur, I would forever after remember this evidence of Vidal's graciousness and self-confidence.

It came to him suddenly that that placidity and hauteur which he had so admired in the old days were no mask for fires within.

Miss Blount is a true woman, her hauteur of a moment since vanishes like snow, and compassion takes its place.

Many of her friends treated Lois as if she were a sort of upper servant, with a mingled condescension and hauteur.