Modifies a noun

• eminence: The parish church, dedicated to the Holy Trinity, stands on a lofty eminence.

• perch: For Wales or Ireland or Scotland to beat the English they have to drag them down off their lofty perch.

• spire: Perhaps the worst result of the storm locally was the destruction of the lofty spire of Foxearth parish church.

• disdain: To my surprise, Deirdre's smile was no longer one of lofty disdain.

• ambition: The preamble to the UN charter sets out the lofty ambition, " to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war " .

• fell: It is a small edifice, surrounded by lofty fells and mountains.

Modifying Another Word

• however: However lofty the motive, routine intrusion is not for your own good.

• rather: That sounds rather lofty work, does it not?

• too: Nothing should be too strange or too remote, nothing too lofty or too low, to be included in its scope; .

• very: The road led in a south-eastern direction gradually upward to very lofty regions.

• so: Whether I achieve so lofty an ideal or not, I share the dream of fellow researchers.

• not: If the support be not lofty, the shoot falls to the ground, and resting there, the extremity rises up.