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Example sentences for: sixteenth

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(1) Although precise figures must remain elusive, according to the best current estimates a total of 10 to 11 million living slaves crossed the Atlantic Ocean from the sixteenth through the nineteenth century.
The Christian Church, nevertheless, chose to latch on to the concept of the Virgin Birth long before the sixteenth century ( cf . Tertullian, who lived c. 160-240 A.D.) in any case, and we do not know whether the use of Isaiah 7:14 was to justify an already extant belief with a text, or whether it was to take an already accepted text and graft its meaning, as was then understood, upon the events of the Annunciation to Mary.
He seems to suggest that somehow we should fault the group of translators who produced the King James Version of the Bible, but, as we have seen, the confusion lies not so much with a group of sixteenth century English scholars as with the very nature of the art of translation.
From faltering beginnings in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
In Los Pastores, or the Shepherds’ Play, a mystery play performed in Mexico and the Southwest since the sixteenth century, the shepherd who plays the role of a buffoon, a jester, is named Bato.