Meaning

(now archaic) Eighty..

Definitions by Sense

1. (now archaic) Eighty.
2. (idiomatic) A full-length life, reckoned as eighty years.
3. A quantity or amount of eighty.

Example Sentences

Thou ſtick'ſt a dagger in me, I ſhall neuer ſee my gold againe, foureſcore ducats at aſitting, foureſcore ducats.

Euen thoſe that were numbꝛed of them, were eight thouſand, and fiue hundꝛed, and foureſcoꝛe.

“I could be sorry for these men,” he said, “ay, and for that poor Queen, but what avail earthly sorrows to a man of fourscore?—and it is a rare dropping morning for the early colewort.”

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Old Martha was standing at a table trussing a pair of chickens for the market stall as she had trussed them for nearly fourscore years.

[…] I know every life is equally sacred, but that is a thought, another thought, I mean, all these valuable people who aren’t going to have their normal fourscore as it is now, these people aren’t going to be replaced, and it’s such a loss to the culture.

W. J. Davis, a retired missionary, a veteran in the fourscores of his years.

Word Forms

• four score
• four-score
• fourscores

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