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Definition of Thirty-nine
1. Adjective. Being nine more than thirty.
Definition of Thirty-nine
1. Number. The cardinal number immediately following thirty-eight and preceding forty. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Thirty-nine
Literary usage of Thirty-nine
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of Psychology by Edward Bradford ( Titchener, Granville Stanley Hall (1902)
"Forty never gets in the way of thirty-nine, the latter being a little lower ...
Forty-nine is just as much higher than thirty-nine as forty is higher than ..."
2. Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad (1900)
"CHAPTER thirty-nine "ALL the events of that night have a great importance, since
they brought about a situation which remained unchanged till Jim's return. ..."
3. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"The thirty-nine Articles must be understood in their plain grammatical sense;
and, when this is doubtful, the private writings of Cranmer and other English ..."
4. Chronological History of the West Indies by Thomas Southey (1827)
"... of Methodists in society in the Virgin Islands amounted to 2173, of whom
thirty-nine were Whites. The population of the Bermudas, according to a census ..."
5. The Cambridge Modern History by Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1907)
"In the course of its subsequent labours the Assembly worked so much of the
thirty-nine Articles as it thought worthy of preservation into the Confession of ..."
6. United States Statutes at Large: Containing the Laws and Concurrent by United States (1850)
"... thirty-nine cents. On the county of Onslow, two thousand two hundred thirty-four
dollars and eleven cents. On the county of New Hanover, six thousand ..."
7. The Constitutional History of England Since the Accession of George the Third by Thomas Erskine May (1899)
"... from several clergymen and others, complaining that subscription to the
thirty-nine articles was required of the clergy and at the universities. ..."
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