nineteenthly

English

Etymology

nineteenth +‎ -ly

Adverb

nineteenthly (not comparable)

1. In nineteenth place; nineteenth in a row.

Translations

in nineteenth place

• German: neunzehntens

Noun

nineteenthly (plural nineteenthlies)

1. (archaic) One of numerous points in a long sermon.
   • 1816, The Eclectic Review:

     In a word, the old Dame of Babylon, against whom our fathers testified so loudly, seems now hardly worth a passing attack, even in the Nineteenthly of an afternoon's sermon, and is in some measure reduced to the pavé.

   • 1863, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Out-door Papers, page 366:

     One can fancy the delight of the oppressed Puritan boys in the days of the nineteenthlies, driven to the place of worship by the tithing-men, and cooped up on the pulpit and gallery stairs under charge of the constables, at hearing for once a discourse which they could understand, […]

   • 1891, Church Building Quarterly, volumes 9-10, page 123:

     You and I know it is not the nineteenthlies in the smart sermons that persuade men to lay hold of Him whom men need.

   • 1892, John Greenleaf Whittier, The Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier, page 174:

     Sermons that, for mortal hours, / Taxed our fathers' vital powers, / As the long nineteenthlies poured / Downward from the sounding-board, […]

   • 1893, Cassier's Magazine, volume 4, page 63:

     […] the tirades of a virago may find expression in a pile of neatly sliced kindling, while the nineteenthlies of her reverend spouse, may receive ultimation in the sawing of substantial logs.