ult.
Americanabbreviation
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ultimate.
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ultimately.
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ultimo.
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ultimate(ly)
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Also: ulto. ultimo
Example Sentences
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G. R. Jones and myself found him in the Division hospital with his leg amputated above the knee, wounded on the 30th ult. by a chance musket ball.
From An Artilleryman's Diary by Jenkins Lloyd Jones
I suppose you have not written to me lately because I did not answer your letter of the 20th ult., but if you have no other, it does not resemble you.
From Observations on the Present State of the Affairs of the River Plate by Thomas Baines
On the 26th ult. the subscriber found one-half of a fat Hog on the Humber Plains, which he supposes to be fraudulently killed, and the other half taken away.
From Toronto of Old by Henry Scadding
Colonel Gilliam, with the rest of the men, left here on the 20th ult. for the Dalles for supplies.
From A History of Oregon, 1792-1849 Drawn From Personal Observation and Authentic Information by William Henry Gray
Severely wounded on the 22nd ult., the day our loved leader fell, of whom they speak most feelingly.
From An Artilleryman's Diary by Jenkins Lloyd Jones
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