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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(rare) A period of five hundred years, half a millennium..
And Mr John Graham, editor of The New Shetlander and one of the most articulate ideologues of the 1967 revolution, reinterpreted the problem of “Social Change during the Quincentennium” (1469–1969) accordingly.
In more leisurely days there were Egyptian millenia^([sic]), Greek and Roman quincentennia, and Spanish, French, and British centuries.
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Quincentennium means (rare) A period of five hundred years, half a millennium..
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And Mr John Graham, editor of The New Shetlander and one of the most articulate ideologues of the 1967 revolution, reinterpreted the problem of “Social Change during the Quincentennium” (1469–1969) accordingly.
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