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threescore
threescore, a. (n.) arch. (ˈθriːskɔə(r), ˌθriːˈskɔə(r)) Forms: see three and score n. [score n. 16.] a. Three times twenty; sixty. (Formerly sometimes written in Roman numerals, iijxx.)1388 Wyclif Lev. xii. 5 Thre scoor and sixe daies. 1470–85 Malory Arthur vi. viii. 194, I wil delyuer al the pryson...
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Psalm 90
It is well known for its reference in verse 10 to human life expectancy being 70 or 80 ("threescore years and ten", or "if by reason of strength ... fourscore The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for
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Ravindra Kumar (editor)
During this period he wrote a book, "Threescore and Fifteen - The story of the Indian Newspaper Society".
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Panarion
-9, quoted below in the original Hebrew, and in the English translation from JPS 1917:
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Epiphanius interpreted the fourscore (80) concubines as sects, who take the name of Christ without being truly matrimonial; the threescore
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blanketer
† ˈblanketer Obs. A blanket-maker.1677 Plot Oxfordsh. 278 The Blanketers, whereof there are at least threescore in this Town [Witney]. 1707 Lond. Gaz. No. 4393/4 John Brookes, of Witney..and Thomas Brookes..Blanketers.
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John Favour
From the dedication to Tobie Mathew, archbishop of York, it appears that the work was begun by the author when he was "threescore yeares old" at the desire
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tossment
† ˈtossment Obs. [f. toss v. + -ment.] The action of tossing or fact of being tossed.1650 T. B. Worcester's Apoph. lix. 108 After so long a voyage as threescore and sixteen years tossement upon the waves of this troublesome world.
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Paul Capon
Chest (1947)
The Murder of Jacob Canansay (1947)
Fanfare for Shadows (1947)
O Clouds Unfold (1948)
Image of a Murder (1949)
Toby Scuffel (1949)
Threescore
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climactered
† ˈclimactered, ppl. a. Obs. rare. [f. prec.] Advanced in age to the ‘grand climacteric’.1627 Drayton Agincourt, etc. 200 Her end deferd, Vntill the time she had beene clima[c]terd; When she would haue bin at threescore yeares and three, Such as our best at three and twenty be.
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Sukkiim
With twelve hundred chariots, and threescore thousand horsemen: and the people were without number that came with him out of Egypt; the Lubims, the Sukkiims
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Seth Holland
George's parish, Southwark, brought to the church by about threescore gentlemen of the Inns of Court and Oxford.
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The Sophy
Background
"In 1642 he broke out", as Denham's contemporary Edmund Waller remarks of him, "like the Irish Rebellion, threescore thousand strong, when
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Billet (wood)
A century later, Anthony A Wood recorded a load of billet wood as costing 12s 6d; while extravagance consisted of "burning in one yeare threescore pounds
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Lewis Jones (bishop)
Irish historian James Ware claimed he was called "the vivacious Bishop of Killaloe" for having married a young wife at the age of threescore (60).
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