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Highhandedness

Definition: Highhandedness

Highhandedness

Noun

1. Overbearing pride evidenced by a superior manner toward inferiors.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Highhandedness

Synonyms: arrogance (n), haughtiness (n), lordliness (n). (additional references)

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Modern Translations: Highhandedness

Language Translations for "highhandedness"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

despotizëm (autarchy, despotism). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

своеволие (irresponsibility, liberty, licence, license, self will). (various references)

   

German

  

Willkürlichkeit (arbitrariness, autocracy, voluntariness). (various references)

   

Italian

  

arbitrariet (arbitrariness). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ighhandednesshay

   

Russian 

  

произвол (arbitrariness, despotism, high-handedness). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

samovolja (contrariness, self will), osionost. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Highhandedness

Derivations

Words beginning with "highhandedness": highhandednesses. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Highhandedness

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-d-e-e-g-h-h-h-i-n-n-s-s"

-4 letters: deadenings, handedness, hiddenness, highhanded.

-5 letters: deadening, desanding, handiness, headiness, saddening.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-d-e-e-g-h-h-h-i-n-n-s-s"
 

+2 letters: highhandednesses.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Highhandedness


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

48 69 67 68 68 61 6E 64 65 64 6E 65 73 73

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001000 01101001 01100111 01101000 01101000 01100001 01101110 01100100 01100101 01100100 01101110 01100101 01110011 01110011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0048 0069 0067 0068 0068 0061 006E 0064 0065 0064 006E 0065 0073 0073

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4275737474678070717080718585

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Translations: Modern
4. Derivations
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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