Definition of "eighteenth" []

• The ordinal number matching the number 18 in a series. (noun)
• One of 18 equal parts. (noun)

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• "[28] "The slough of despond which we call the eighteenth century" ( "Hopes and Fears for Art," p. 211)."
• "The first thing to do was to cultivate the foreign example; and with that what we call the eighteenth century began."
• "If we are not deceived in that hope, if the art of to-day has really come alive out of the slough of despond which we call the eighteenth century, it will surely grow and gather strength and draw to it other forms of intellect and hope that now scarcely know it; and then, whatever changes it may go through, it will at the last be victorious, and bring abundant content to mankind."