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Definition of Seventy-nine
1. Adjective. Being nine more than seventy.
Definition of Seventy-nine
1. Cardinal numeral. The cardinal number immediately following seventy-eight and preceding eighty. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Seventy-nine
Literary usage of Seventy-nine
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1887)
"... the controversy remaining to be tried is in regard to the seventy-nine head
claimed. [376] Tlie net proceeds of the seventy-nine head were ..."
2. Pennsylvania Archives by Pennsylvania Dept. of public instruction, Pennsylvania State Library (1907)
"... and for the County of Bedford the second Tuesday in October in the year of
our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy nine Do certify and declare ..."
3. Records of the Court of Assistants of the Colony of the Massachusetts Bay by Massachusetts Court of Assistants, John Noble, John Francis Cronin (1901)
"... unto the sajd persons before named in mony the sume of seventy nine pounds
sixe shillings & six pence that is to say sixty one pounds sixe shillings ..."
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