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heighth
noun
(
obsolete spelling of, height
)
1690:
Nicholas Barbon,
A Discourse of Trade
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: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
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:'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 , O!...
1809:
James Grey Jackson,
An Account of the Empire of Marocco
(London 1809, p. 169)
:The of the celestial happiness is to see God (...).
1826:
James Fenimore Cooper,
The Last of the Mohicans
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: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 ' and grand appearance!
Etymology:
Old English
hehíu, hÄhíu, hiehíu, hÄehíu
, corresponding to
high
+
-th
. Cognate with Dutch
hoogte
.
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