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22ND
I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Coming next after the twenty-first in position
Synonyms:
22nd; twenty-second
Classified under:
Similar:
ordinal (being or denoting a numerical order in a series)
Context examples:
He rummaged amid his newspapers, glancing over the dates, until at last he smoothed one out, doubled it over, and read the following paragraph: Hotel Cosmopolitan Jewel Robbery. John Horner, 26, plumber, was brought up upon the charge of having upon the 22nd inst., abstracted from the jewel-case of the Countess of Morcar the valuable gem known as the blue carbuncle.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Sir Thomas had been amusing himself with shaping a very complete outline of the business; and as soon as she would listen quietly, could read his list of the families to be invited, from whom he calculated, with all necessary allowance for the shortness of the notice, to collect young people enough to form twelve or fourteen couple: and could detail the considerations which had induced him to fix on the 22nd as the most eligible day.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
