altierezza

Italian

altierezza f (plural altierezze)

(archaic) Alternative form of alterezza
- 1349–1353, Giovanni Boccaccio, “Giornata decima – Novella seconda”, in Decameron; republished as Aldo Francesco Massera, editor, Il Decameron‎^[1], Bari: Laterza, 1927:
  L’abate che, come savio, aveva l’altierezza giú posta, gli significò dove andasse e perché.
  The abbot, like a wise man, had by this laid by his pride and told him whither he went and why.