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- adverb In the
seventeenth place; seventeenth in a row.
Etymologies
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seventeenth + -ly
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Examples
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"seventeenthly," while occasionally a few of the good deacons slept; and so, year after year, the windy war continued.
Pocket Island A Story of Country Life in New England Charles Clark Munn 1882
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You may observe that one of these "seventeenth drawings" took place November 7 1864, and another December 5, 1864; so that seventeenthly came twice.
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