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[ adjective ] coming next after the seventeenth in position
Synonyms Used in print (Irving Fineman, Woman of Valor: The Life of Henrietta...)By her eighteenth birthday her bent for writing was so evident that Papa and Mamma gave her a Life_of_Dickens as a spur to her aspiration . (Morton A. Kaplan and Nicholas de B. Katzenbach,...)Whereas the eighteenth century had been a time in which man sought justice , the nineteenth and twentieth have been centuries in which men are satisfied with law . The displacement ( at_least to a considerable extent ) of the ethical jurisprudence of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries by positivism reshaped both international_law theory and doctrine . Related terms |
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[ noun ] position 18 in a countable series of things
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