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the height of something 1. the greatest amount of something. It's the height of arrogance to feel you need to convert someone to your own religion. 2. the period when something is strongest. In 1955, he was at the height of his fame. The constitution was drawn up at the height of military rule. |
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Before twelve o'clock we had found a good position for the tent, at a height of eleven thousand feet. Then, again, it has reference to quantity, as, for instance, in the case of a man's height; for he is said to 'have' a height of three or four cubits. The surrounding hills rise abruptly from the water to the height of forty to eighty feet, though on the southeast and east they attain to about one hundred and one hundred and fifty feet respectively, within a quarter and a third of a mile. |
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