Eighteenth Definition

Eighteenth Sentence Examples

• Christina assumed the sceptre in her eighteenth year (Dec. 8, 1644).

• At the end of the eighteenth century there were a couple of dozen men in Paris who began to talk about all men being free and equal.

• The reign of Josiah is important for the biblical account of the great religious reforms which began in his eighteenth year, when he manifested interest in the repair of the Temple at Jerusalem.

• He was educated for a business career, but in his eighteenth year entered the Church, joining the Society of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and Mary (also known as the Picpus Congregation), and taking Damien as his name in religion.

• At the time he sent it to Grimald Walafrid had, as he himself tells us, hardly passed his eighteenth year, and he begs his correspondent to revise his verses, because, "as it is not lawful for a monk to hide anything from his abbot," he fears he may be beaten with deserved stripes.