quinquennium
IPA: kwˈɪnkwˈɛniʌm
noun
- A period of five years.
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Examples of "quinquennium" in Sentences
- Net capital formation was very steady over the quinquennium
- The Magister office is of papal appointment and to quinquennium renewable.
- As Nafta begins its second quinquennium, much remains to be achieved and much remains to be said.
- The young Nero was handsome and personally popular, and the opening years of his reign (_quinquennium Neronis_) were famous for good government and prosperity.
- Empire the first five years of his reign (the _quinquennium Neronis_) were a period of peace and good government, but for the Jews they brought little or no relief.
- Above all, net capital formation suffered an appalling collapse after 1929, falling in 1932 to a figure no less than 95 per cent below the average of the quinquennium 1925 − 1929.
- For the rest of the Empire the first five years of his reign (the quinquennium Neronis) were a period of peace and good government, but for the Jews they brought little or no relief.
- Anno gratis 1231, mense ver� Iulio, Petrus Wintoniensis episcopus, completo in terra sancta iam fere per quinquennium magnifice peregrinationis voto, reuersus est in Angliam, Kalendis
- Homeward by the way of South Street, admiring the slender concave bows of fine ships -- the _Mexico_ and the _Santa Marta_, for instance -- and privily wondering what were our chances of smelling blue water within the next quinquennium, we passed in mild and placid abandonment.
- The mild and enlightened administration of the earlier years of the new reign, the famous _quinquennium Neronis_, which was looked back to afterwards as a sort of brief golden age, may indeed be ascribed largely to Seneca's influence; but this influence was based on an excessive indulgence of Nero's caprices, which soon worked out its own punishment.