2015年8月6日 · The belief that it has xxi decreased suggests that we started off nasty and that the artifices of civilization have moved us in a noble direction, one in which we can hope to continue. The "XXI" in capitals mean 21 in Roman numerals, but I don't think the lower-case letters "xxi" here also refer to 21. It seems that the sentence is well ...

2013年12月5日 · FWIW, when I was taught (by History teachers) to take lecture notes as a VIth Form A-level student in Britain in the 1970s, we were taught the abbreviation "C12th" etc. as a standard usage (optionally with the C larger than and partially enclosing the number).

To some extent, it depends on the font you are using and how accessible its special features are. If you can do full typesetting, then you probably want to make the th part look different from the 20 part, just like they do here:

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1904 ‘M. Corelli’ God's Good Man xxi, I shall invite Roxmouth and his tame pussy, Mr. Marius Longford. 1925 S. Lewis Martin Arrowsmith vi. 65 You ought to hear some of the docs that are the sweetest old pussies with their patients—the way they bawl out the nurses. 1934 M. H. Weseen Dict. Amer. Slang 193 Pussy, an effeminate boy.

1863 Mrs. Oliphant Salem Chapel xxi, ― Not all her personal wretchedness could unwoman the minister’s mother so much as to make her forgive··Phœbe’s presumption. Unlike the case with unman, the secondary sense of unwoman meaning to unsex her is quite rare. The OED provides only one citation of this sense:

They don't quite mean the same thing. It's subtle, though. He is a bit angry, but mostly he's just glad you're back.

2021年3月6日 · In Book XXI of his History of Rome, Livy describes a Carthaginian sect of coprophages, the risus faecivorus, or shit-eating grin, being commonly displayed by its adherents. Although, its origin is undetermined, they may have been incidents which caused the invention of this phrase. Below is an excerpt:

2011年6月13日 · [1578 LYLY Euphues I. 236 Anye impietie may lawfully be committed in loue, which is lawlesse.] 1620 T. SHELTON tr. Cervantes' Don Quixote II. xxi. Love and warre are all one. .. It is lawfull to use sleights and stratagems to .. attaine the wished end. 1845 G. P. R. JAMES Smuggler II. iv. In love and war, every strategem is fair, they say.

2018年12月22日 · Nowadays, we often see the word impact being used as a verb. It has been a verb since the 17th century. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny History of the World II. xx. xxi. 73 The seed of this hearbe remooveth the tough humours bedded in …