heighth

Etymology

From Old English hēahþu, hēhþu, hīehþu, equivalent to high +‎ -th. Cognate with Dutch hoogte (“height”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /haɪθ/, /haɪtθ/
• Rhymes: -aɪθ, -aɪtθ

Noun

heighth (plural heighths)

1. (obsolete outside US dialects, now proscribed) Alternative form of height
   • 1690, Nicholas Barbon, A Discourse of Trade‎:

     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:

     '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:

     " […] 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! […] "

   • 1962, Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange‎ (Fiction), Reprint edition, Heinemann, published 2008, page 2:

     The four of us were dressed in the heighth of fashion, ...

References

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