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nineteenthly

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Etymology

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From nineteenth +‎ -ly.

Adverb

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nineteenthly (not comparable)

  1. In nineteenth place; nineteenth in a row.

Translations

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Noun

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nineteenthly (plural nineteenthlies)

  1. (archaic) One of numerous points in a long sermon.
    • 1816, The Eclectic Review:
      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.
    • 1863, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Out-door Papers, page 366:
      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, []
    • 1891, Church Building Quarterly, volumes 9-10, page 123:
      You and I know it is not the nineteenthlies in the smart sermons that persuade men to lay hold of Him whom men need.
    • 1892, John Greenleaf Whittier, The Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier, page 174:
      Sermons that, for mortal hours, / Taxed our fathers' vital powers, / As the long nineteenthlies poured / Downward from the sounding-board, []
    • 1893, Cassier's Magazine, volume 4, page 63:
      [] 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.