Altaltissimo

Quick meaning: Altaltissimo is a noun meaning (rare, literary) The highest point of something; the pinnacle or apex.

Meaning

(rare, literary) The highest point of something; the pinnacle or apex.

Example Sentences

Gordon, too, carried plenty in his hands, but principally he went for his heart's sake, and that will take a man to altaltissimo.

Beatrice Davis's office, a mere attic above Angus and Robertson's bookshop at 89 Castlereagh Street, is at the altaltissimo of a perilous steep of strait wooden stairs.

Then one shall propose (in a speech, curt Tuscan, / Sober, expurgate, spare of an "issimo,") / Ending our half-told tale of Cambuscan, / Turning the Bell-tower's altaltissimo.

Persons born under this number always rise high in their respective professions. To achieve summum bonum, the highest altaltissimo in their profession, is their main objective.

Word Forms

• altaltissimos

Related Words

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