nineteenth

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The eighteenth century found its mistaken fondness for episodes, inset stories, and the like, particularly convenient here: the naval, military, sporting, and other novels of the nineteenth were apt to rely too exclusively on these differences.

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  1. noun The ordinal number matching the number 19 in a series.
  2. noun One of 19 equal parts.

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  • Since we could not submit to moral force we submitted in our blind stupidity--we called it the rejection of metaphysical concepts--to financial force, to political force, to social force; and finally, since there was no longer any reward in itself for our speculations, we submitted to the lust for personal aggrandizement in fortune, in notoriety, in castebound irresponsibility, and even for the hypocritical backslapping of our fellows In the counterrevolution known as the nineteenth century we even repudiated the name of speculation and it became a term of disrepute, like metaphysical. —  Greener Than You Think
  • I think my nineteenth was the fullest year I have ever had--crammed When she was twenty, Nelka went with her mother to Narragansett Bay for the summer. —  Nelka Mrs. Helen de Smirnoff Moukhanoff, 1878-1963, a Biographical Sketch
  • This phase of Ludwig's art strikes us as fresh and modern today, and it must have appeared like a revelation to a generation that did not yet, know Flaubert's Madame Bovary or George Eliot's Adam Bede Considered in his totality as man and as artist, Ludwig cannot be counted among the names of the very first rank in German nineteenth century literature. —  The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 09 Friedrich Hebbel and Otto Ludwig
  • "A ripping good dinner," he says; "get a skinful of champagne inside you, go to bed when it is light, and get up when you are rested Each century has its special ideal, the ideal of the nineteenth is the young man. —  Confessions of a Young Man
  • We cannot follow the subtle train of argument which says that because the "doctrine" of the second century called her the "second Eve," therefore the devotion which sets her upon the altars of Christendom in the nineteenth is a right development of the doctrine. —  Occasional Papers Selected from the Guardian, the Times, and the Saturday Review, 1846-1890
 

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  1. from Middle English ninetenth, ninetethe, neoʒenteothe, from Anglo-Saxon nigonteótha = OFries. niuguntinda, niugentendesta = Dutch negentiende = Old High German niuntazehanto, Middle High German niunzehende, niunzehendeste, German neunzehnte, neunzehnteste = Icelandic nītjāndi = Swedish nittonde = Danish nittende = Gothic (Moesogothic) *niuntaihunda (not recorded), nineteenth; as nineteen + -th.
 

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