fifteenth
adjective
next after the fourteenth; being the ordinal number for 15.
fifteenths
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pluralof fifteenth.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Subsidies and fifteenths are frequently mentioned by historians; but neither the amount of these taxes, nor the method of levying them, have been well explained.
From The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part D. From Elizabeth to James I. by David Hume
Two fifteenths were granted him; and the better to enable his vassals and nobility to attend him, an act was passed, empowering them to sell their estates, without paying any fines for alienation.
From The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part C. From Henry VII. to Mary by David Hume
Noailles says that the queen demanded the fifteenths, and that the Commons refused to grant them.
From The Reign of Mary Tudor by Ernest Rhys
Whereupon the saide marchants prosecuted the matter before the Councel of our soueraign lord the king, insomuch that they were released from paying afterward any such tallages, fifteenths, and subsidies.
From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 05 Central and Southern Europe by Richard Hakluyt
A supply of one subsidy and two fifteenths was granted by parliament.
From The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part D. From Elizabeth to James I. by David Hume
