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Definition of One-fifth
1. Noun. One part in five equal parts.
Lexicographical Neighbors of One-fifth
Literary usage of One-fifth
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1912)
"In raising, cultivating, and harvesting the crops ; such expenses to be shared
equally between the parties, that Is, each to pay one-fifth part thereof, ..."
2. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Courts of Common Pleas, and by Great Britain Court of Common Pleas, John Bernard Bosanquet, Great Britain Court of Exchequer Chamber, Great Britain Parliament. House of Lords, Christopher Puller, A. Moore (1826)
"Ruth and Margaret, two of the seven sisters, died DACKE without issue, whereby
the other five sisters became each seised ' f°r life of one-fifth of these ..."
3. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"The proportion of English emigrants was thus less than one-fifth, and assuming
the same to have been the case during the whole period, it may be calculated ..."
4. The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by Isaac Smith Homans, William B. Dana (1840)
"institutions would be one fifth of their assets, and in the other three fifths
thereof. In the one the currency would amount to one fifth of the capital ..."
5. Journal: 1st-13th Congress . Repr. 14th Congress, 1st Session by United States Congress. House (1851)
"The yeas and nays being desired by one-fifth of the members present, Those who
voted in the affirmative are— It was decided in the negative ..."
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