tenth
/tɛnθ/ verb C2- To divide by ten, into tenths.
He/she/it tenths · Past tenthed · Past participle tenthed · -ing form tenthing
Verb forms
- Base form
- tenth
- He/she/it
- tenths
- Past
- tenthed
- Past participle
- tenthed
- -ing form
- tenthing
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“You hear—Major Bartolomeo Cavalcanti—a man who ranks amongst the most ancient nobility of Italy, whose name Dante has celebrated in the tenth canto of The Inferno, you remember it, do you not?
“The tenth of your income—that would be fine work.”
They never overtook the chimerical friend, yet Andrea frequently inquired of people on foot whom he passed and at the inns which were not yet closed, for a green cabriolet and bay horse; and as there are a great many cabriolets to be seen on the road to the Low Countries, and as nine-tenths of them are green, the inquiries increased at every step.
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