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Definition of Fortnightly
1. Adverb. Every two weeks. "He visited his cousins fortnightly"
2. Adjective. Occurring every two weeks.
Definition of Fortnightly
1. a. Occurring or appearing once in a fortnight; as, a fortnightly meeting of a club; a fortnightly magazine, or other publication.
Definition of Fortnightly
1. Noun. a publication issued fortnightly; a bi-weekly ¹
2. Adjective. occurring once in a fortnight ¹
3. Adverb. once in a fortnight ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Fortnightly
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Fortnightly
Literary usage of Fortnightly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The English Illustrated Magazine (1904)
"fortnightly: " Are you going to convert the new barbarians of the ... fortnightly:
May. Tbe Social and Political Dependence of Women. nightly : April. ..."
2. The Quarterly Review by John Gibson Lockhart, George Walter Prothero, William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Baron Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, Sir William Smith (1907)
"fortnightly Review. "Full of readable articles " Living Church. " Cosmopolitan in
its view ... NINETEENTH CENTURY, CONTEMPORARY REVIEW, fortnightly REVIEW, ..."
3. The History of the Woman's Club Movement in America by Jane Cunningham Croly, General Federation of Women's Clubs (1898)
"THE fortnightly CLUB THE fortnightly CLUB, of Chicago, is one of the earliest
and most steadfast of the women's clubs that have been called " Light Seekers. ..."
4. Historical Essays by Edward Augustus Freeman (1896)
"But I acknowledged the authorship of the National article in a note to the
fortnightly article. A certain amount of repetition could hardly be helped. ..."
5. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"... the "fortnightly Review", the "Nineteenth Century", the " Dublin Review", etc.
See Gentleman's Magazine (1856 and 1900); Royal Society Year Book (1901); ..."
6. The Life of Charles Dickens by John Forster (1874)
"... the objectors were to be excused who called him only a stagy sentimentalist
and a clever caricaturist. This critical essay appeared in the fortnightly ..."
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