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Forty-seventh   /fˈɔrti-sˈɛvənθ/   Listen
Forty-seventh

adjective
1.
The ordinal number of forty-seven in counting order.  Synonym: 47th.






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"Forty-seventh" Quotes from Famous Books



... of his grounds. This strenuous work, together with horse exercise and occasional bursts with the West Kent or Dover hunt, provided the recreation which enabled his naturally weak and gout-ridden frame to withstand the wear and tear of official life up to his forty-seventh year. ...
— William Pitt and the Great War • John Holland Rose

... so gorgeous, no baby-house so costly, but she might aspire to share its lavish delights;—let her ask simply for an equal chance to learn, to labor, and to live, and it was as if that same doll should open its lips, and propound Euclid's forty-seventh proposition. While we have all deplored the helpless position of indigent women, and lamented that they had no alternative beyond the needle, the wash-tub, the school-room, and the street, we have yet resisted their admission into every new occupation, denied them training, ...
— Atlantic Monthly Vol. 3, No. 16, February, 1859 • Various



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