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- adverb In the
sixteenth place; sixteenth in a row.
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Examples
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He thought vaguely what a good moral the contrast would have pointed to the sixteenthly of one of his great ancestor's sermons; then he fell to wondering if the old gentleman's theology would have stood the strain of an experience like this.
Flint His Faults, His Friendships and His Fortunes Maud Wilder Goodwin
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"And, sixteenthly, the thruppenny bit has about it this noble quality, that it represents an aliquot part of that sum which is paid to me daily from the Royal Treasury in silver, a metal upon which we have always insisted.
On Something Hilaire Belloc 1911
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