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noun: The addition of a letter or syllable at the end of a word, either through natural development or to add emphasis. For example, height-th for height.
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Via Latin, from Greek paragoge, from para- (beyond) + -agogue (leader).
USAGE:
"Henry Peacham cites the expansion of 'vile' to 'vilde' as an example of the rhetorical figure paragoge."
Stephen Booth; Shakespeare's Sonnets; Yale University Press; 2000.
I really don't understand today's one at all. Vilde is a proper name, what is rhetorical about that? And what is height-th? Does the addition of the th heigthen the emphasis? (!_!)
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"O thou dull God, why lyest thou with the vilde, In loathsome Beds?" - Henry IV
nothing at all to do with proper names, everything to do with vile personages.
[Variant of VILE a., with excrescent -d. The earliest instances are Scottish (cf. tylde for TILE n.1), but the form is extremely common from c 1580 to 1650.]
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"O thou dull God, why lyest thou with the vilde, In loathsome Beds?" - Henry IVThat's more clear, thank you. Vile is used as a noun here but to a dutch person it looks like an adjective as well, as all our adjectives end in 'e'. Well, a paragoge. Do you also have an enlightening idea about heigth-th. Isn 't this just Lispeling Heights? 
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It says height - th. He's pointing out the 2 words (or rather 2 spellings for the same word) height and heighth.
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I allus thought heighth was just errily in keeping with length and width, like.
Anthony.. Leauing the Fight in heighth, flyes after her. - Anthony & Cleopatra
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Heighth for height is not paragoge but height for heighth is syncope. See Old English hīehðu ( link).
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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Flighth and heighth and fighth and flyes _ that's all a little bedizzeling. This is really not grabbable for a foreigner.
A light attack of vertigo coming up soon.
ð That's a funny little th - sign!
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ð That's a funny little th - sign!
It's called an edh by some.
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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Pronounced like ads? I've always liked the word vertigo, such a compact word to say "fear of heights" and nice in form. It has a nice set of definitions the word heights. a.o.:
a position of influence, fame ,or power (mostly plural): the giddy heights of office.
giddy: (causing or tending to cause vertigo) that tells a lot too for a five letter word.
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I've always liked the word vertigo, such a compact word to say "fear of heights" and nice in form. doesn't mean 'fear of heights'. I means 'dizziness', a dizziness that may be set off by being in the heights, but not a fear of heights in itself. The symbol ð is prounced like the th in that, the other th symbol, þ, is pronounced like the th in thin. This, at least, is the modern interpretation. In OE the two symbols were pretty much interchangeable, being voiced or unvoiced depending on their placement in a word. The same word might be spelled with either depending on the dialect or the whims of the writer.
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