Meanings
- not comparableIn nineteenth place; nineteenth in a row.
plural nineteenthlies
- archaicOne of numerous points in a long sermon.
You and I know it is not the nineteenthlies in the smart sermons that persuade men to lay hold of Him whom men need.
1891, Church Building Quarterly, volumes 9-10, page 1234 more examples
In a word, the old Dame of Babylon, against whom our fathers testified so loudly, seems now hardly worth a passing attack, even in the Nineteenthly of an afternoon's sermon, and is in some measure reduced to the pavé.
1816, The Eclectic ReviewOne can fancy the delight of the oppressed Puritan boys in the days of the nineteenthlies, driven to the place of worship by the tithing-men, and cooped up on the pulpit and gallery stairs under charge of the constables, at hearing for once a discourse which they could understand, […]
1863, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Out-door Papers, page 366Sermons that, for mortal hours, / Taxed our fathers' vital powers, / As the long nineteenthlies poured / Downward from the sounding-board, […]
1892, John Greenleaf Whittier, The Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier, page 174[…] the tirades of a virago may find expression in a pile of neatly sliced kindling, while the nineteenthlies of her reverend spouse, may receive ultimation in the sawing of substantial logs.
1893, Cassier's Magazine, volume 4, page 63
Origin
Translations
French dix-neuvièmement
- dix-neuvièmementin nineteenth place
German neunzehntens
- neunzehntensin nineteenth place
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