Sexennial

adj, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A sexennial event.
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."

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sextennialsixth

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"[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."

Etymology

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

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