seventyodd
numEtymology From seventy + -odd.
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Slightly more than seventy.
- If we conceive of the poetry that has been written in English in the last twelve months as a kind of Purgatory, a mountainous cone like Dante’s, with a spiral pathway leading to its summit, we shall find among the one hundred and seventyodd volumes on its lower rounds no ponderable significance; but midway in the ascent we come to a score or more of poets with something to say for themselves.1905 September 23, Ferris Greenslet, “Significant Poetry”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 30 Sep 2025: