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Definition of Seventeenths
1. seventeenth [n] - See also: seventeenth
Lexicographical Neighbors of Seventeenths
Literary usage of Seventeenths
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of England in the Eighteenth Century by William Edward Hartpole Lecky (1890)
"... and an amendment of John Claudius Beresford, that the contribution of Ireland
should be only two-twentieths instead of two-seventeenths, was speedily ..."
2. A History of England in the Eighteenth Century by William Edward Hartpole Lecky (1890)
"... and an amendment of John Claudius Beresford, that the contribution of Ireland
should be only two-twentieths instead of two-seventeenths, was speedily ..."
3. Reports of Cases by New York (State). Court of Appeals (1910)
"The judgment in that action declared that the eleven-seventeenths of the said
property, as to which no valid trust had been created, passed to Catherine ..."
4. Eighty-five Years of Irish History, 1800-1885 by William Joseph O'Neil Daunt (1888)
"He added that it never could have been expected that Ireland would be able to
pay two- seventeenths of so large a sum as seventy-two millions. ..."
5. Statutes of the Province of Quebec Passed in the Session Held in the by Québec (Province). (1899)
"... That the rights of the said Jacques and Virginie Cartier, in and to the said
constituted rents, consisting in ten-seventeenths of such rents, ..."
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