five-hundredth love

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  • adjective The ordinal form of the number five hundred.
  • noun The person or thing in the five-hundredth position.
  • noun One of five hundred equal parts of a whole.

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  • adjective the ordinal number of five hundred in counting order

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Examples

  • I could refute several of the points you made in your previous post, but since the comments there are already full of refutations upon refutations upon refutations, I'll refrain from launching into the five-hundredth verse (same as the first).

    A Few Last Words grrm 2010

  • He was now followed by a growing number of reporters who wanted to chronicle his five-hundredth homer while he also battled for a pennant.

    WILLIE MAYS JAMES S. HIRSCH 2010

  • On September 12, in the Astrodome at Houston, he led off the fourth inning with a 450-foot line drive into the center field runway for his five-hundredth home run, and as he jogged around the bases, the fans stood and chanted: Willie!

    WILLIE MAYS JAMES S. HIRSCH 2010

  • Then up to four words flashed simultaneously on the screen at rates of one five-hundredth of a second.

    Speed Reading: Fact or Fiction? « Articles « Literacy News 2009

  • When Benedict XVI in 2005 addressed the Lutheran World Federation, he referred to the forthcoming 500th anniversary of the Reformation: "As we prepare to mark the five-hundredth anniversary of the events of 1517, we should intensify our efforts to understand more deeply what we have in common and what divides us, as well as the gifts we have to offer each other".

    Archive 2009-09-01 Burke's Corner 2009

  • When Benedict XVI in 2005 addressed the Lutheran World Federation, he referred to the forthcoming 500th anniversary of the Reformation: "As we prepare to mark the five-hundredth anniversary of the events of 1517, we should intensify our efforts to understand more deeply what we have in common and what divides us, as well as the gifts we have to offer each other".

    A sign of hope: a papal visit to Northern Ireland Burke's Corner 2009

  • If a woman experiences a particularly long, hard, or stalled early labor, she may panic as she finds herself gripped by the five-hundredth labor pain—with no end in sight, no help, no hope.

    Our Bodies, Ourselves: Pregnancy and Birth THE BOSTON WOMEN’S HEALTH BOOK COLLECTIVE 2008

  • If a woman experiences a particularly long, hard, or stalled early labor, she may panic as she finds herself gripped by the five-hundredth labor pain—with no end in sight, no help, no hope.

    Our Bodies, Ourselves: Pregnancy and Birth THE BOSTON WOMEN’S HEALTH BOOK COLLECTIVE 2008

  • “It was the five-hundredth anniversary of the conquest of the Americas by Spain,” the courtly, soft-spoken CEO of CEMEX recently recalled with a chuckle in his art-filled offices in midtown New York.

    The Emerging Markets Century Antoine van Agtmael 2007

  • Christianity a quarter of a second, the Industrial Revolution a fortieth of a second, and the idea of exponential growth a five-hundredth of a second [the years since WWII, in Brower's calculation].

    Has Jesus Come and Gone? 2006

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