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one-fifth

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n.1.A fifth part.
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Noun1.one-fifthone-fifth - one part in five equal parts
common fraction, simple fraction - the quotient of two integers

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He has already made proselytes of one-fifth of the camp; beginning by working on the women, the children, and the weak-minded.
Besides, the cistern did not contain one-fifth part of it; they must therefore give up this efficient means of deadening the shock of arrival.
One of these paragraphs tells about a quarrel between the Czar of Russia and his eldest son, twenty-one and a half lines; and the other tells about the atrocious destruction of a peasant child by its parents, forty lines, or one-fifth of the total of the reading-matter contained in the paper.
 
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