Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An obsolete variant of
hie .
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Examples
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Great Regulars: The alliterative form is remarkably flexible across a range of tones and subjects, but my favourite passages have always been the evocations of bleak northern weather and terrain that permeate the poem: "The werbelande wynde wapped fro the hyghe/And drof uch dale ful of dryftes ful grete" adapted by Simon Armitage as "then a whip-cracking wind comes whistling between hills/Driving snow into deepening drifts in the dales".
Great Regulars: The alliterative form is remarkably flexible Rus Bowden 2007
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And every gerner hathe a zate, for to entre with inne, a lytille hyghe fro the erthe.
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In this contree ben righte hyghe hilles, toward the ende of Macedonye.
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And every gerner hathe a zate, for to entre with inne, a lytille hyghe fro the erthe.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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In this contree ben righte hyghe hilles, toward the ende of Macedonye.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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¶ Beware to be Inquysytyf/or to muse on hyghe maters and subtyll.
A Ryght Profytable Treatyse Compendiously Drawen Out Of Many and Dyvers Wrytynges Of Holy Men Thomas Betson
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Receyue mercyfull Ihesu this hyghe & holy sacryfyce to the comfort of all [that] ben on lyue & deed/& wouchesauf this daye [that] it be to vs & to all them a synguler refresshynge & feest/that we so releued [with] this brede of lyue & lambe Inmaculate/borne of the blessyd virgyn Mary may Ioye in thy laude & glorye eternally.
A Ryght Profytable Treatyse Compendiously Drawen Out Of Many and Dyvers Wrytynges Of Holy Men Thomas Betson
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¶ And for as moche that by the holy ordynaunce the consecracyon therof & offerynge vp to thy hyghe mageste for the quycke and deed oonly belongeth to the order of preesthode.
A Ryght Profytable Treatyse Compendiously Drawen Out Of Many and Dyvers Wrytynges Of Holy Men Thomas Betson
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Beware also of vayne glory/lyftynge vp your vysage & voyce on hyghe as wymen done in the worlde.
A Ryght Profytable Treatyse Compendiously Drawen Out Of Many and Dyvers Wrytynges Of Holy Men Thomas Betson
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¶ Beware of hyghe speche & clamorous/and see that thy wordes be fewe well sette & resonable.
A Ryght Profytable Treatyse Compendiously Drawen Out Of Many and Dyvers Wrytynges Of Holy Men Thomas Betson
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