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in a physical sense.
height
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  • Ǽr þon þe seó heáhnes (

    altitudo

    ) þæs wealles gefylled wǽre,
      Bd. 2, 14; Sch. 170, 19.
  • Egeslicere heáhnysse (heánnesse, Wrt. Voc. ii. 85, 48)

    (turrem) minaci proceritate,

      An. Ox. 4436.
  • Þá triówa heánnisse ic wundrade,

      Nar. 28, 1.
depth
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  • Ne hæfdon heánisse eorðes,

      Mt. L. R. 13, 5.
  • Heónisse,

      Mk. R. 4, 5.
a height, high place, high part, top
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  • Ord, cnol, heánes apicem (v. Lk. 16, 17,

    and

    cf. apex, cacumen litere,
      72, 6), Wrt. Voc. ii. 73, 74.
  • Heánnes þǽre heáfodpannan

    cacumen capitalis,

      22, 52.
  • Under haehnisse (heánes, 77, 73)

    sub cono (sublimi verticis [arboris ]

    ),
      121, 65.
  • Heánnesse

    caucumine (collis,

    v. Ald.
      21, 36), 22, 1.
  • On heáhnysse

    in edito,

      An. Ox. 2458.
  • Fleógan on ðá heáhnesse (

    in altum

    ),
      Bt. 36, 1 ; F. 172, 33.
  • On heáhnise

    in conum,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 82, 45.
  • Oð ðæs heáfdes heánnesse (heánesse, lxxii, 13)

    usque ad uerticem,

      Lch. i. lxxiv, 36.
  • On hégnessum

    in altum,

      An. Ox. 1559.
  • Hergað Dryhten in heánissum,

      Ps. Srt. 148, 1.
a deep place or part: — Lǽd on heánise
duc in altum,
    Lk. L. 5, 4.
non-physical.
of persons or their attributes, loftiness of rank or character, high rank or
quality, majesty, dignity
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  • On heálicere héhnysse ł geþinþe geuferede

    edito (uirginitatis) fastigio sublimati,

      An. Ox. 930.
  • On heálicere démendre héhnysse ł geþinhþe

    in alto tribunalis culmine,

    3456.
  • Þá won wyrd on unrihtwísra anwealda heánesse,

      Bt. 5, 1; F. 10, 21.
  • Æfter heáhnysse ł heánnysse þínre

    secundum altitudinem tuam,

      Ps. L. 11. 9.
  • Ne wællað gié in heánnise (heónisse, R.) genime

    nolite in sublime tolli,

      Lk. L. 12, 29.
a position of dignity or
supremacy
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  • Ðæt mynster on eallum Norðscottum ealldordóm and heánnesse onféng (ealdordóm onféng mid heánessum,

    v. l.) monasterium in cunctis septentrionalium Scottorum monasteriis arcem tenebat, regendisque eorum populis praeerat,

      Bd. 3, 3 ; Sch. 201, 20.
exaltation of mind,
elevation beyond ordinary conditions
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  • In módes heáhnnesse

    in extasi (figuram vidit,

      Ald. 152, 23), Wrt. Voc. ii. 91, 16.
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