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- adverb In the
fourteenth place; fourteenth in a row.
Etymologies
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Examples
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He announced the title of his sermon as, "Is God neutral?", and in his fourteenthly proved to his own satisfaction, that the Deity, abandoning neutrality, had declared
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"That's what Kinvig said when he was cutting up his sermon into firstly, secondly, thirdly, and fourteenthly."
Capt'n Davy's Honeymoon Hall Caine 1892
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These discourses were commonly of great length; twice, or sometimes thrice, the pulpit hour-glass was silently inverted while the orator pursued his theme even unto "fourteenthly."
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Parson, laying his pipe on his hand, “fourteenthly, it is calumniously asserted by the opposers of divine truth that on this hypothesis God made men to damn them; but we say
Margaret 1851
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