17th

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Abbreviation of seventeenth. abbreviation, alt-of, not-comparable

    "In 16th and 17th century Britain, for example, women’s alopecia was sometimes interpreted as retribution for sins, including adultery."

Adjective
  1. 1
    coming next after the sixteenth in position wordnet

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ordinalseventeenth

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"In 16th and 17th century Britain, for example, women’s alopecia was sometimes interpreted as retribution for sins, including adultery."

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