ninth
adjective
next after the eighth; being the ordinal number for nine.
ninthly
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a word derived from
ninth.
Example Sentences
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Tell me ninthly, Since thou art called wise, Whence the wind comes, That over ocean passes, Itself invisible to man.
From Algonquin Legends of New England by Charles Godfrey Leland
This I thee counsel ninthly: that thou corpses bury, wherever on the earth thou findest them, whether from sickness they have died, or from the sea, or are from weapons dead.
From The Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson; and the Younger Eddas of Snorre Sturleson by Saemund Sigfusson
The second promise is that, nine-tenths of what is worthy to be called Literature being concerned with this spiritual element, for that it should be studied, from firstly up to ninthly, before anything else.
From On The Art of Reading by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
Tell me ninthly, since thou art called wise, and if thou knowest, Vafthrûdnir! whence the wind comes, that over ocean passes, itself invisible to man?
From The Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson; and the Younger Eddas of Snorre Sturleson by Saemund Sigfusson
