Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Occurring every sixth year.
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- adjective Lasting or continuing
six years . - adjective Occurring once in every six years.
Etymologies
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Latin
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Examples
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A senator who cared for the people of his home state, rather than viewing them as a necessary evil on the sextennial footpath to lifetime incumbency, would be focused on that.
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According to the last sextennial diagram of the Prison Commissioners, which embraces the six years ended March, 1884, the mean number of prisoners in the local prisons of England and Wales was, on the first Tuesday in
Crime and Its Causes William Douglas Morrison 1898
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But it’s just his sextennial is that the right word? dance to appeal to the members of his party whose support he needs.
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