6. Progress toward eminence; grade; degree.

Social duties are carried to greater heights, and enforced with

stronger motives by the principles of our religion.

Addison.

7. Utmost degree in extent; extreme limit of energy or condition; as,

the height of a fever, of passion, of madness, of folly; the height of

a tempest.

My grief was at the height before thou camest.

Shak.

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