heighth

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
17
Words With Friends
15
Letters
7
Pronunciation
/haɪθ/
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/haɪθ/ · /haɪtθ/

Definition of heighth

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (alt-of, alternative, proscribed)Alternative form of height.
    “And from hence also shall be the geodesy of the Icosaedrum. For the finding out of the heighth of the pyramis, there is the semidiagony of the side of the decangle and the halfe ray of the circle: But the side of the decangle is a right line subtending the halfe periphery of the side of the quinquangle, or else the greater segment of the ray proportionally cut.”
    “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...”
    “'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!...”
    “The heighth of the celestial happiness is to see God (...).”
    “"[…] 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! […]"”

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Etymology

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

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