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Definition of Forty-seventh
1. Adjective. The ordinal number of forty-seven in counting order.
Definition of Forty-seventh
1. Numeral. (ordinal) The ordinal form of the number forty-seven, describing a person or thing in position number 47 of a sequence. ¹
2. Noun. (fractional) One of forty-seven equal parts of a whole. ¹
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Forty-seventh
Literary usage of Forty-seventh
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Indian Affairs: Laws and Treatiesby United States, Charles Joseph Kappler by United States, Charles Joseph Kappler (1904)
"... second session 28 Acts of forty-seventh Congress, first session 28-30 Acts of
forty-seventh Congress, second session 31 Acts of Forty-eighth Congress, ..."
2. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of King's Bench: With by Great Britain Court of King's Bench, George Mifflin Wharton (1845)
"... IN THE forty-seventh YEAR OF GEORGE III. Gordon and Others v. Secretan.(a) u
East, 548. June 15, 1807. Where an instrument is produced at the trial by ..."
3. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"Isaac Barrow, who died in his forty-seventh year in 1677, seems to be the best
of them ; he has more self- command than Taylor, more earnestness than South, ..."
4. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1772)
"APPENDIX TO THE 'MONTHLY REVIEW, VOLUME the forty-seventh. FOREIGN LITERATURE, ART.
... FORTYSEVENTH."
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