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  • noun The cardinal number immediately following seventy-eight and preceding eighty.

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  • adjective being nine more than seventy

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Examples

  • Friar Lopinot later claimed to have baptized seventy-nine Jews.

    Crossing Mandelbaum Gate Kai Bird 2010

  • Friar Lopinot later claimed to have baptized seventy-nine Jews.

    Crossing Mandelbaum Gate Kai Bird 2010

  • He was fifty-seven at the time, well beyond life expectancy for the era; even so, Old Kinderhook went on to become Much Older Kinderhook, living to age seventy-nine.

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • He was fifty-seven at the time, well beyond life expectancy for the era; even so, Old Kinderhook went on to become Much Older Kinderhook, living to age seventy-nine.

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • He kept a meticulous log of everything he acquired, though even without this he would have been ale to list that he had seventy-nine bottles of whisky, sixty-five bottles of Cognac and exactly forty bottles of gin; then there were the cured sausages and rounds of cheese, stacks of preserves and cans of beer, washing powders and toothpastes.

    Books Maxine 2009

  • He kept a meticulous log of everything he acquired, though even without this he would have been ale to list that he had seventy-nine bottles of whisky, sixty-five bottles of Cognac and exactly forty bottles of gin; then there were the cured sausages and rounds of cheese, stacks of preserves and cans of beer, washing powders and toothpastes.

    More from To steal her love, by Matti Joensuu Maxine 2009

  • Kamehameha at Hilo, "Pool cast back through the calendar;" which makes you seventy-nine, or eight years older than I.

    THE BONES OF KAHEKILI 2010

  • He kept a meticulous log of everything he acquired, though even without this he would have been ale to list that he had seventy-nine bottles of whisky, sixty-five bottles of Cognac and exactly forty bottles of gin; then there were the cured sausages and rounds of cheese, stacks of preserves and cans of beer, washing powders and toothpastes.

    June 2009 Maxine 2009

  • Van Horn and his Danish mate, Borckman, making a total of seventy-nine souls.

    CHAPTER II 2010

  • So far, the daisies were trouncing the buttercups seventy-nine to forty and it seemed the buttercups were losing faith, preparing themselves for the button-lipped disappointment of the car ride home.

    Day 6: Bunking off Jane Flett 2011

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