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I looked here;

I looked there;

Nowhere could I see my love.

And--this time--

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In an accidental manner; by chance, unexpectedly.

He discovered penicillin largely accidentally.

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ordinal

Part of Speech: nounPronunciation: /ˈɔː(ɹ).dɪ.nəl/Used In Literature ↓

An ordinal number such as first, second and third.

In a Sentence

The most common numerals in Latin, as in English, are the "cardinals"...and the "ordinals"... — F. M. Wheelock, Wheelock’s Latin, 6th ed. revised (2005), p97

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Common Phrases

scale ordinalnumbers ordinaldata ordinalnumber ordinalposition ordinalscales ordinal
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Poetry examples for ordinal

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.