Nineteenthly
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adverb
Quick meaning: Nineteenthly is an adverb meaning In nineteenth place; nineteenth in a row.
Meaning
In nineteenth place; nineteenth in a row.
More Meanings
- (archaic) One of numerous points in a long sermon.
Example Sentences
You and I know it is not the nineteenthlies in the smart sermons that persuade men to lay hold of Him whom men need.
Sermons that, for mortal hours, / Taxed our fathers' vital powers, / As the long nineteenthlies poured / Downward from the sounding-board, […]
[…] the tirades of a virago may find expression in a pile of neatly sliced kindling, while the nineteenthlies of her reverend spouse, may receive ultimation in the sawing of substantial logs.
In a word, the old Dame of Babylon, against whom our fathers testified so loudly, seems now hardly worth a passing attack, even in the Nineteenthly of an afternoon's sermon, and is in some measure reduced to the pavé.
Word Forms
- nineteenthlies
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include eighteenthly, ninthly, twentiethly, ninetiethly, twenty-firstly, seventeenthly.
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