hee
pron. C2 Proficiency US //ˈhi// hee
pron. an old way of writing the word 'he'. You will mostly see this in very old books or poems from hundreds of years ago.
pron. an archaic spelling of the third-person singular masculine nominative pronoun 'he'. Found primarily in Middle English and early Modern English texts.
Hee was a man of great honor.
In the original printing of the play, the character is referred to as 'hee' throughout the first act.
Scholars of early modern manuscripts must remain alert to orthographic variations, such as the addition of a terminal 'e' in 'hee', which was common before spelling became standardized.
Usage
Archaic spelling; replaced by 'he' in modern standard English.