Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
Etymology tree English nineteenth Middle English -ly English -ly English nineteenthly From nineteenth + -ly.
fr dix-neuvièmement (in nineteenth place) · de neunzehntens (in nineteenth place)
Etymology tree English nineteenth Middle English -ly English -ly English nineteenthly From nineteenth + -ly.
[…] 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.1893, Cassier's Magazine, volume 4, page 63:
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.1816, The Eclectic Review:
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, […]1863, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Out-door Papers, page 366:
Sermons that, for mortal hours, / Taxed our fathers' vital powers, / As the long nineteenthlies poured / Downward from the sounding-board, […]1892, John Greenleaf Whittier, The Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier, page 174:
You and I know it is not the nineteenthlies in the smart sermons that persuade men to lay hold of Him whom men need.1891, Church Building Quarterly, volumes 9-10, page 123:
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
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| nineteenthlies | Number=Plur | lexicographic |