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Definition of Quinquennium
1. Noun. A period of five years.
Definition of Quinquennium
1. n. Space of five years.
Definition of Quinquennium
1. Noun. A period of five years. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Quinquennium
1. [n -NIA or -NIUMS]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Quinquennium
Literary usage of Quinquennium
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Whole Works by James Ussher, Charles Richard Elrington (1650)
"... reque in quinquennium consulari potestate ... in quinquennium urbanos magistratus
... in quinquennium cum potes- tate ..."
2. The Imperial Gazetteer of India by William Wilson Hunter, Great Britain India Office (1908)
"to the harder conditions of life in the second quinquennium; there is a general
tendency to understate the age of marriageable girls; the last quinquennial ..."
3. A history of the Romans under the empire by Charles Merivale (1865)
"The "quinquennium Neronis." (AD 54—59, Au 807—812.) A PECULIAR interest attaches
to the history of the Romans through the greater part of its course, ..."
4. History of Rome and the Roman People: From Its Origin to the Establishment by Victor Duruy (1885)
"I.—THE " quinquennium NERONIS." WE arrive at the fifth emperor' without having
yet seen a natural succession, or an adoption determined by reasons of state. ..."
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