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Plurisecular

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Of or related to a span of several centuries, centuries-old. literary, rare

    "M. Charles Rabot, secretary of the French Commission on Glaciers, is the author of a pamphlet entitled "Essai de Chronologie des Variations Glaciaires"... A complete primary oscillation, i.e. an increase and decrease, appears to have a duration of one or two centuries... There seems further to be a plurisecular period covering, in the case of the Alps, about three centuries."

Etymology

From pluri- (“multi-, many”) + secular (“of or related to centuries”), chiefly after French pluriséculaire.

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