Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Relating to or depending on the number nine; proceeding by nines.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Relating to, or dependent on, the number nine; novenary.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective obsolete Relating to, or dependent on, the number
nine ;novenary .
Etymologies
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Latin novenus nine each.
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Examples
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Will make it up with mother Concepcion and a glorious lie between us, sweetness, so as not a novene in all the convent loretos, not my littlest one of all, for mercy’s sake need ever know, what passed our lips or.
Finnegans Wake 2006
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