highness

HIGHNESS, noun hi'ness. Elevation above the surface; loftiness; altitude; highth.1. Dignity; elevation in rank, character or power.2. Excellence; value.3. Violence; as the highness of wind.4. Great amount; as the highness of price.5. Acuteness; as the highness of a note or voice.6. Intenseness, as of heat.7. A title of honor given to princes or other men of rank.HIGHTHHIGHT, noun [See Height.] Elevation; altitude; loftiness. [It is very desirable that this noun should be regularly formed from the adjective.]Hight, to call, to promise, to command, etc., is a false orthography, from Saxon, hatan. It is obsolete. [See Heat.]