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Etymology

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high +‎ reaching

Adjective

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highreaching (comparative more highreaching, superlative most highreaching)

  1. Extending upward by a long distance; tall.
    • 2021, Michael Farris Smith, chapter 21, in Nick, New York, Boston, London: Little, Brown and Company, pages 119–20:
      He stared up at the arched windows and the highreaching steeple with a small, simple cross sitting at its height.