Noun
(plural heighths)
- 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! […] "
- (US, proscribed) Alternative form of height.
