nineteenth centuryn.adj.

Brit.

/ˌnʌɪntiːnθ ˈsɛntʃ(ᵿ)ri/, U.S.

/ˌnaɪnˌtinθ ˈsɛn(t)ʃ(ə)ri/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: nineteenth adj., century n.

Etymology: < nineteenth adj. + century n.

A. n.

The century between the 18th and the 20th.The 19th century is traditionally regarded as beginning in 1801 and closing at the end of December 1900; however, more recently the century has been taken as spanning the years from 1800 until 1899 inclusive.

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the world > time > period > year > [noun] > period of specific number of years > a century > specific centuries

nineteenth century1790

American Century1935

twenty-first century1964

1790 E. Burke Refl. Revol. in France 211 But history, in the nineteenth century, better understood, better employed, will, I trust, teach a civilized posterity to abhor the misdeeds of both these barbarous ages.

1805 G. Huddesford Champignons du Diable i. 1 (Argument) Cause of the admiration excited by political events in the beginning of the nineteenth century.

1825 N. Amer. Rev. July 142 It professes to be a survey, taken at the close of the first quarter of the nineteenth century, of the progress of the civilised nations of the world.

1884 Cent. Mag. Dec. 212/1 Their spirit was that of the modern man of the world, their passion was the Weltschmerz of the nineteenth century.

1966 Economica 33 17 For some years now the economic trends of the late nineteenth century in Britain have caused acute controversy.

1990 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 14 June 12/4 It began to segregate its black from its white members in the nineteenth century.

B. adj.

Usually with hyphen. Of, relating to, or characteristic of this century.

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the world > time > period > year > [adjective] > of or relating to specific number of years > of a century > of a specific century

nineteenth century1850

Twentieth Century1902

1850 C. Kingsley Alton Locke II. vii. 80 One wondered where the people lived, who cultivated so vast a tract of civilised, over-peopled, nineteenth-century England.

1872 W. F. Butler Great Lone Land (ed. 2) xvi. 241 Terrible deeds..never perhaps more sickening than now in the full blaze of nineteenth-century civilization.

1879 Temple Bar Sept. 44 Glowering at each other in civil nineteenth-century fashion.

1923 J. W. Harvey tr. R. Otto Idea of Holy p. vii A fair expression of the limitations and bias of the nineteenth-century mind.

1951 C. P. Snow Masters xxxiv. 272 His views were eccentric for an old man, but his manners had stayed gentle and nineteenth century.

2001 Amer. Scholar Autumn 8/1 Charles Reade, the nineteenth-century novelist, had so many commonplace books that ‘they completely filled one of the rooms in his house.’

This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	nineteenth century
释义	nineteenth centuryn.adj. Brit. /ˌnʌɪntiːnθ ˈsɛntʃ(ᵿ)ri/, U.S. /ˌnaɪnˌtinθ ˈsɛn(t)ʃ(ə)ri/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: nineteenth adj., century n. Etymology: < nineteenth adj. + century n. A. n. The century between the 18th and the 20th.The 19th century is traditionally regarded as beginning in 1801 and closing at the end of December 1900; however, more recently the century has been taken as spanning the years from 1800 until 1899 inclusive. ΘΚΠ the world > time > period > year > [noun] > period of specific number of years > a century > specific centuries nineteenth century1790 American Century1935 twenty-first century1964 1790 E. Burke Refl. Revol. in France 211 But history, in the nineteenth century, better understood, better employed, will, I trust, teach a civilized posterity to abhor the misdeeds of both these barbarous ages. View more context for this quotation 1805 G. Huddesford Champignons du Diable i. 1 (Argument) Cause of the admiration excited by political events in the beginning of the nineteenth century. 1825 N. Amer. Rev. July 142 It professes to be a survey, taken at the close of the first quarter of the nineteenth century, of the progress of the civilised nations of the world. 1884 Cent. Mag. Dec. 212/1 Their spirit was that of the modern man of the world, their passion was the Weltschmerz of the nineteenth century. 1966 Economica 33 17 For some years now the economic trends of the late nineteenth century in Britain have caused acute controversy. 1990 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 14 June 12/4 It began to segregate its black from its white members in the nineteenth century. B. adj. Usually with hyphen. Of, relating to, or characteristic of this century. ΘΚΠ the world > time > period > year > [adjective] > of or relating to specific number of years > of a century > of a specific century nineteenth century1850 Twentieth Century1902 1850 C. Kingsley Alton Locke II. vii. 80 One wondered where the people lived, who cultivated so vast a tract of civilised, over-peopled, nineteenth-century England. 1872 W. F. Butler Great Lone Land (ed. 2) xvi. 241 Terrible deeds..never perhaps more sickening than now in the full blaze of nineteenth-century civilization. 1879 Temple Bar Sept. 44 Glowering at each other in civil nineteenth-century fashion. 1923 J. W. Harvey tr. R. Otto Idea of Holy p. vii A fair expression of the limitations and bias of the nineteenth-century mind. 1951 C. P. Snow Masters xxxiv. 272 His views were eccentric for an old man, but his manners had stayed gentle and nineteenth century. 2001 Amer. Scholar Autumn 8/1 Charles Reade, the nineteenth-century novelist, had so many commonplace books that ‘they completely filled one of the rooms in his house.’ This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1790
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