Meaning of nineteenthly | Babel Free

Definitions

One of numerous points in a long sermon.

archaic

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“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⟳, […]”

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

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

“[…] 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.”

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