Heighth

From Old English hÄ“ahÃ¾u, hÄ“hÃ¾u, hÄ«ehÃ¾u, equivalent to high + -th. Cognate with Dutch hoogte.

Full definition of heighth

(plural heighths)

1690, Nicholas Barbon, A Discourse of Trade http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=/texts/english/modeng/publicsearch/modengpub.o2w&act=surround&offset=87224667&tag=Barbon,+Nicholas,+d.+1698:+A+Discourse+of+Trade,+1690&query=+heighth&id=BarDisc: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 http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=/texts/english/modeng/publicsearch/modengpub.o2w&act=surround&offset=167134294&tag=Cibber,+Colley:+Richard+III,+1700&query=+heighth&id=Cib3Ric:'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 http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=/texts/english/modeng/publicsearch/modengpub.o2w&act=text&offset=763111755&textreg=1&query=+heighth&id=eaf056v2"... 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 Chapter , The four of us were dressed in the heighth of fashion, ...