Definitions
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- adverb In the
fifteenth place; fifteenth in a row.
Etymologies
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fifteenth + -ly
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Examples
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Newspaper manners and morals hardly fall into the category of minor manners and morals, which are supposed to be the especial care of the Easy Chair, but there are frequent texts upon which the preacher might dilate, and push a discourse upon the subject even to the fifteenthly.
Ars Recte Vivendi; Being Essays Contributed to "The Easy Chair" George William Curtis 1858
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-- Think of repeating these things to a New England audience! thirdly, fourthly, fifteenthly, till there are three barrels of sermons!
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