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Tenth   /tɛnθ/   Listen
adjective
Tenth  adj.  
1.
Next in order after the ninth; coming after nine others.
2.
Constituting or being one of ten equal parts into which anything is divided.


noun
Tenth  n.  
1.
The next in order after the ninth; one coming after nine others.
2.
The quotient of a unit divided by ten; one of ten equal parts into which anything is divided.
3.
The tenth part of annual produce, income, increase, or the like; a tithe.
4.
(Mus.) The interval between any tone and the tone represented on the tenth degree of the staff above it, as between one of the scale and three of the octave above; the octave of the third.
5.
pl. (Eng. Law)
(a)
A temporary aid issuing out of personal property, and granted to the king by Parliament; formerly, the real tenth part of all the movables belonging to the subject.
(b)
(Eccl. Law) The tenth part of the annual profit of every living in the kingdom, formerly paid to the pope, but afterward transferred to the crown. It now forms a part of the fund called Queen Anne's Bounty.





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"Tenth" Quotes from Famous Books



... still sitting very comfortably together, discussing their mutual life—they had planned as far as the tenth year of their marriage—when Peggy ...
— I've Married Marjorie • Margaret Widdemer
... pressure the sixth stair fairly shrieked. Mr. Morgan skipped on to the seventh and broke into a cold sweat. Again he was confronted with the choice of the eighth or ninth. After a moment of agonized indecision, he decided to miss them both.... Man but proposes. In his anxiety he missed the tenth also and slithered ...
— Anthony Lyveden • Dornford Yates
... it suits Your Honor's humor to make me tell you a tenth time what I have nine times said already, I have a tongue that wags. But I see that another has been telling tales of me behind my back, making me out a liar for his own purposes. Inshallah, it shall be found that my tale varies by less ...
— The Lion of Petra • Talbot Mundy
... after the latter's death, at the time when the widow had sought a refuge on that damp ground floor with merely an income of some 15,000 francs, saved with great difficulty from the wreck of the family fortune. But she, who adored her son Gerard, then in his tenth year, and of delicate health, had sacrificed everything to the boy from a kind of maternal chasteness and a superstitious fear that she might lose him should she set another affection and another duty in her life. And the Marquis, while bowing to her decision, had continued ...
— The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete - Lourdes, Rome and Paris • Emile Zola
... evening of the tenth day Burns put in the cork. He made elaborate preparations in advance and assigned his force to the posts where they were to work. A string of eight-inch pipe sixty feet long was slid forward and derricked over the stream. Above this a large number of steel rails, borrowed from the ...
— Gunsight Pass - How Oil Came to the Cattle Country and Brought a New West • William MacLeod Raine


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