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• A wood beyond this moor was viewed as a border area in the seventeenth century.From the entry wood
• The Clydesdale was developed in the seventeenth century in the Scottish region whence its name.From the entry Clydesdale
• Sörenstam birdied the seventeenth hole to take the lead.From the entry birdie
• The first instances of double modals date back to the seventeenth century.2019, Irina S. Lebedeva, Svetlana N. Orlova, “Semantics and pragmatics of the double modal ‘might could’”, in Training, Language and…. From the entry double modal
• Nonrhotic or r-less dialects have been displacing them since the seventeenth century.1998, J. K. Chambers, Peter Trudgill, Dialectology, 2nd edition, Cambridge University Press, page 94. From the entry rhotic
• My particular spot related to Culpeper's London Dispensatory of the seventeenth century.1990, Robert D. Clifford, You're Still a Doctor, Doctor!, London: Sphere Books, →ISBN, pages 83–84. From the entry pizzel
• Not surprisingly, perhaps, an antisugar school of medicine arose anew, in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.1986, Sidney Wilfred Mintz, Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History. From the entry antisugar
• Stramonium seed, mixed with wine, produces, according to a seventeenth century erotologist, libidinous activity.1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 229. From the entry libidinous
• The culmination of the Renaissance came about in a bourgeois pluperfection during the seventeenth century.1938, Seumas O'Sullivan, The Dublin Magazine, Volume 13. From the entry pluperfection
• This vocabularium was a recognized authority for the languages of Europe in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.1930 March 9, “New Library Urged by Villanova Group: Adequate Protection for Rare Volumes and More Study Room Needed”, in Sunday…. From the entry vocabularium
• Certainly, a play upon words would have been much in the sentiment of the seventeenth century.1930 July 6, “Is It True That Morley Is Lamb’s Inheritor?”, in The Vancouver Sunday Province, number 100, Vancouver, B.C., section “A…. From the entry taphology
• Public credit was controversial in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England.2020, Natalie Roxburgh, Representing Public Credit, page 1. From the entry public credit
• By other names, foodistas and fashionistas have been part of the Paris scene since at least the seventeenth century.2017, David Downie, A Taste of Paris: A History of the Parisian Love Affair with Food, New York: St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 266. From the entry foodista
• During the first three decades of the seventeenth century, Portuguese trade from Goa to Portugal and to Gurajat rapidly declined.2016, Ghulam A. Nadri, “The Indigo Trade: Local and Global Demand”, in The Political Economy of Indigo in India, 1580–1930: A Global…. From the entry fust
• By the seventeenth century the archbishop became recognized as the ethnarch (ethnic political leader) of the Greek Cypriot community.2013, John Coakley, Pathways from Ethnic Conflict: Institutional Redesign in Divided Societies, Routledge, →ISBN, page 135. From the entry ethnarch
• In the seventeenth century, the strategy for sugar production, a labor-intensive agro-industry, was to keep the manpower cost down through slavery.1997, Mark Kurlansky, Cod, page 80. From the entry agroindustry
• Another exploitative device was instituted by Governor Sebastian Hurtado de Corcuera during the first half of the seventeenth century .1975, Renato Constantino, Letizia R. Constantino, The Philippines: A Past Revisited, page 51. From the entry bandala
• The dozen as a measure for iron ore remained almost completely constant at 12 cwts. during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.1957, H.R. Schubert, History of the British Iron and Steel Industry, page 139. From the entry dozen
• Parliament in the seventeenth century an unsatisfactory barometer of public opinion because the franchise was irregularly distributed and the witch-ridden south-east over-represented.2012 May 23, R. T. Davies, Four Centuries of Witch Beliefs (RLE Witchcraft), Routledge, →ISBN. From the entry witch-ridden
• Like the European imperialists of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Driessen claims, today's eco-imperialists keep developing countries destitute for the benefit of the developed world.2007, U.C. Mandal, Dictionary Of Public Administration, page 147. From the entry eco-imperialist
• In the late seventeenth century, the Qing government forced people in central China, where the population was dense, to migrate to southern Shaanxi, including Lueyang.2005, “Intergenerational Transfer in China”, in Unequal Chances: Family Background and Economic Success, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 238…. From the entry Lueyang
• The majority of Taiwanese people are descendants of Fujianese settlers who immigrated from China to Taiwan in the seventeenth and the eighteenth centuries.2000, Wen Shu Lee, “In Search of My Mother's Tongue: From Proverbs to Contextualized Sensibility”, in Myron W. Lustig, Jolene Koester…. From the entry Fujianese
• In fact corvées, champarts, and rights of banality not only continued but had been increased in the course of the seventeenth century.1986, Pierre Goubert, translated by Ian Patterson, The French Peasantry in the Seventeenth Century, page 218. From the entry banality
• At least one lineage, the Kaos of Kuan-shan, had charitable land endowed for this purpose by a member in the seventeenth century.[1979, Hilary J. Beattie, “Land and taxation”, in Land and Lineage in China: A Study of Tʻung-chʻeng County, Anhwei, in the Ming and…. From the entry gao
• From the late seventeenth to the early eighteenth century, merchants raided Yorùbá towns, captured men and women from large Yorùbá-speaking regions, and sold them, mainly to Portuguese traders.2004, Kamari Maxine Clarke, Mapping Yorùbá Networks: Power and Agency in the Making of Transnational Communities, Durham, N.C.; London…. From the entry Yorùbá
• By the end of the seventeenth century, the New English were building almost all of the vessels they employed, as well as growing numbers for English merchants.2001, Alan Taylor, American Colonies, New York: Viking Penguin, →ISBN, page 176. From the entry New English
• The cahow was known to colonists in Bermuda during the early part of the seventeenth century, and these people relied on it quite heavily for food.2000, Errol Fuller, Extinct Birds, Oxford, page 60. From the entry cahow
• Although the theoretical strictures of Neoclassicism in Europe during the later seventeenth century and the eighteenth century banned generic mixtures, they were not too faithfully adhered to.1993, Virgil Nemoianu, Romantic Irony, Biedermeier Tragicomedy, edited by Gerald Gillespie, Romantic Drama, Amsterdam: John Benjamins. From the entry make free with
• The Puritans of the seventeenth century had been conversionist, crucicentric, and biblicist, but rarely had they devoted themselves to spreading the gospel where it was not yet known.1993, David Bebbington, “Revival and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century England”, in Edith L. Blumhofer, Randall Balmer, editors, Modern…. From the entry crucicentric
• Modeled upon a style popular in England in the middle of the seventeenth century, the many-gabled, half-timbered house still stands, testimony to the skill of its builder.1980, Gerald H. Clarfield, “For Loyalist to Whig”, in Timothy Pickering and the American Republic, Pittsburgh, Pa.: University of…. From the entry half-timbered
• In the plague-ridden England of the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, according to the historian Keith Thomas, it was widely believed that “the happy man would not get plague.”1978, Susan Sontag, chapter 7, in Illness as Metaphor, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, page 55. From the entry plague-ridden
• But in fact the English kings of the seventeenth century usually began to touch from the day of their accession, without waiting for any such consecration.1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 189. From the entry touch
• Even in the mid seventeenth century a country gentleman might regard his caul as a treasure to be preserved with great care, and bequeathed to his descendants.1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 182. From the entry caul
• This prepared a legacy that the further acquaintance of the seventeenth century could only misinherit because seventeenth-century American settlers concentrated on "developing" the land, not on describing it.1966, Peter A. Fritzell, Landscapes of Anglo-America During Exploration and Early Settlement, page 3. From the entry misinherit
• The most prized of the furnishings perhaps is the polescreen in the front parlor, whose needlepoint is dated the second half of the seventeenth century .1949, The Antiquarian, page 8. From the entry polescreen
• Macaulay was concerned to interpret the seventeenth century in terms of the triumph of the Whigs as champions of public rights; and he upheld this one-sidedly but not malignantly.1913, G. K. Chesterton, chapter 1, in The Victorian Age in Literature. From the entry malignantly
• The use of high pattens (calcagnini or calcagnetti) still persisted during the seventeenth century, and we do not know for certain when this strange and inconvenient habit went out.1908, Pompeo Molmenti, Venice: The Decadence, page 224. From the entry calcagnetti
• One of the great divines of the seventeenth century was said to “keep a scruple-shop.” The Barclay had “a scruple-shop,” and the business done in it was considerable.1904, James Wells, The Life of James Hood Wilson, D.D., page 157. From the entry scruple-shop
• In other words, the student is an invariant, transhistorical subject who is, to all intents and purposes, indistinguishable from his or her counterpart in the seventeenth, eighteenth or nineteenth century.2005, Michael Cronin, edited by Martha Tennent, Training For The New Millennium, John Benjamins Publishing Co, page 259. From the entry transhistorical

Meaning of seventeenth

1. adjective The ordinal form of the number seventeen.
2. noun One of seventeen equal parts of a whole.
3. noun An interval of two octaves and a third.

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How do you use seventeenth in a sentence?

Seventeenth is used as an adjective and noun. For example: “A wood beyond this moor was viewed as a border area in the seventeenth century.”

What is a short sentence with seventeenth?

“Public credit was controversial in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England.”

What does seventeenth mean?

Seventeenth means the ordinal form of the number seventeen.