English
Etymology
Old English hehþu|h�hþu, hiehþu|hīehþu, corresponding to high + -th. Cognate with Dutch hoogte.
Pronunciation
IPA|/haɪθ/
Noun
en-noun
#obsolete spelling of|height
#*1690: Nicholas Barbon, A Discourse of Trade 1
#*:In the Infancy of the World, Governments began with little Families and Colonies of Men; so that, when ever any Government arrived to greater Heighth than the rest, either by the great Wisdom or Courage of the Government, they afterwards grew a pace...
#*1700: Colley Cibber, Richard III 2
#*:'Why then to me this restless World's but Hell,
#*:Till this mishapen trunks aspiring head
#*:'Be circled in a glorious Diadem --
#*:But then 'tis fixt on such an heighth, O!...
#*1809: James Grey Jackson, An Account of the Empire of Marocco (London 1809, p. 169)
#*:The heighth of the celestial happiness is to see God (...).
#*1826: James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans 3
#*:That! that, is the print of a foot, but 'tis the dark hair's; and small it is, too, for one of such a noble 'heighth and grand appearance!
References
Catcher in the Rye
WSU.EDU
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