Certain fractions

Usage examples of twentieths.

He was an austere, old fashioned Calvinist, who believed that at least nineteen twentieths of his fellow men were elected to perdition.

Once, five years before when he was seventeen, while playing with four other boys for credit twentieths, he won nineteen out of twenty games of showdown.

Observe too, that the clergy will constitute (note-Letters-8, see page 1458) nineteen twentieths of this association, and, by the law of the majority, may command the twentieth part, which, composed of all the high authorities of the United States, civil and military, may be outvoted and wielded by the nineteen parts with uncontrollable power, both as to purpose and process.

In your day fully nineteen twentieths of the crime, using the word broadly to include all sorts of misdemeanors, resulted from the inequality in the possessions of individuals.