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Definition of Threescore
1. Adjective. Being ten more than fifty.
2. Noun. A set with 3 times 20 members.
Definition of Threescore
1. a. Thrice twenty; sixty.
Definition of Threescore
1. Noun. (archaic) Sixty. (60) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Threescore
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Threescore
Literary usage of Threescore
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Englishman's Hebrew and Chaldee Concordance of the Old Testament by George V. Wigram (1866)
"26: 25. were numbered of them, threescore and dred and threescore and ... 43.
were numbered of them, ( were) threescore and four thousand and four hundred. ..."
2. The Gentleman's Magazine (1860)
"186 THE threescore AND TEN. THE following animated lines are, we understand, the
effusion of a veteran poet, the Rev. Dr. Croly ; and were produced by him ..."
3. After Noontide by Margaret Eliot White, Eliza Orne White (1907)
"threescore and ten ! No iron gate Is shut and locked by cruel fate ... threescore and
ten! What though the eye. Grow dim to things that near us lie, ..."
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