seventeen

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Still there were, on the whole, the elements of a controlling constitutional party throughout the fifteen provinces The great bond of sympathy, however, between all the seventeen was their common hatred to the foreign soldiery.

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  1. noun The cardinal number equal to 16 + 1.
  2. noun The 17th in a set or sequence.

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  1. Middle English seventene, from Old English seofontīne; see septm̥ in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English seuentene, sewintine, from Anglo-Saxon seofon-tyne = Old Saxon sivontein = OFries. siuguntine = Dutch zeventien = Middle Low German seventein = Middle High German siben-zehen, German siebzehn = Icelandic sjautjān, sautjan, seytjan = Swedish sjutton = Danish sytten = Latin septendecim = Gr.έπτα(καί)- δεκα = Sanskrit septadaça; as seven + ten: see ten and -teen.
 

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/ˈsɛvnˈtin/
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