nineteenthly
nineteenthly
Adverb
This term is an ordinal adverb used exclusively for sequencing items in a highly structured list. It is extremely rare in natural speech and is typically confined to formal, legal, or academic writing where an exhaustive series of points must be enumerated with absolute precision.
Because of its length and the sheer number of points it implies, using "nineteenthly" often signals a pedantic or overly meticulous tone. In most modern contexts, writers prefer using bullet points or phrases like "the nineteenth point is" to avoid the rhythmic awkwardness of such a long adverb.
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