seventy-eighth

[sev-uh n-tee-eytth, -eyth]

adjective

next after the seventy-seventh; being the ordinal number for 78.
being one of 78 equal parts.

noun

a seventy-eighth part, especially of one (1/78).
the seventy-eighth member of a series.

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Historical Examples of seventy-eighth

The first year of Saka corresponds to the seventy-eighth of the Christian era.
A Visit to Java
W. Basil Worsfold
At one time the Rebs were right in on top of the Seventy-Eighth.
Andersonville, Volume 2
John McElroy
He died 1642, in the seventy-eighth year of his age, the prisoner of the Inquisition.
Gospel Philosophy
J. H. Ward
There he died in 1680, in the twenty-eighth year of his captivity, and seventy-eighth of his age.
Curious Epitaphs
William Andrews
Thus expired Tiberius in the seventy-eighth year of his age.
The Reign of Tiberius, Out of the First Six Annals of Tacitus
Tacitus