the seventeenth

Synonyms

17th

Examples

Instead of trying to educate the human race, they should imitate the pedagogues of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, who concentrated their efforts on the education of a single person. Georg Brandes

Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century. Bertrand Russell

Until the seventeenth century there was no concept of evidence with which to pose the problem of induction! Ian Hacking

I am mimetic. If I write a book set in the seventeenth century, I write in a Baroque style. If I'm writing a book set in a newspaper office, I write in Journalese. Umberto Eco

The uniformity and repeatability of print created the "political arithmetic” of the seventeenth century and the "hedonistic calculus” of the eighteenth. Marshall McLuhan

The levelling of inflexion and of wordplay became part of the program of applied knowledge in the seventeenth century. Marshall McLuhan

Words in the phrase

the seventeenth

Close letter words and terms

the seven position the seven stars the seven-year itch the seventeenth anniversary the seventeenth century the seventeenth day