What does nineteenthly mean?
Nineteenthly means In nineteenth place; nineteenth in a row..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · adverb
In nineteenth place; nineteenth in a row..
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.
One can fancy the delight of the oppressed Puritan boys in the days of the nineteenthlies, driven to the place of worship by the tithing-men, and cooped up on the pulpit and gallery stairs under charge of the constables, at hearing for once a discourse which they could understand, […]
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.
Use nineteenthly when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Nineteenthly means In nineteenth place; nineteenth in a row..
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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.
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