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Sexennial

adj, noun

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Pertaining to a period of six years; taking place once every six years. not-comparable

    "[T]his evil was exterior and accidental, and not so much the vice of their constitution itself, as it must be in your new contrivance of sexennial elective judicatories."

Noun
  1. 1
    A sexennial event.

Etymology

Etymology 1

From New Latin sexennialis (16th century), equivalent to sexennium + -al.

Etymology 2

From New Latin sexennialis (16th century), equivalent to sexennium + -al.

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