centuries

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All the centuries are as nothing; the strange garb and the stranger mental and spiritual dress fade, and we have here a mere woman, affected, as every true sister of hers to-day would be, by the helpless wailing.

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  1. noun A period of 100 years.
  2. noun Each of the successive periods of 100 years before or since the advent of the Christian era.
  3. noun A unit of the Roman army originally consisting of 100 men.
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  • In our own case (and our own case is the only basis we have for most of these estimations), the gap between development of radiotelescopes and the achievement of interstellar flight is unlikely to span more than a couple of centuries, which is insignificant when measured against L=50,000 years. —  Analog, April 2002
  • For centuries, the best of us have dedicated our lives to Jesus Christ and to this community. —  The BROTHERHOOD of the HOLY SHRO
  • But it is hard for me to see the virtue in this fever that has possessed the pastors of our community for centuries, the acts of madness that they have committed or ordered to be committed in God's name. —  The BROTHERHOOD of the HOLY SHRO
  • They've been after it for centuries, and we've been there to stop them. —  The BROTHERHOOD of the HOLY SHRO
  • Thus it had been down through the centuries, and thus it would always be. —  The BROTHERHOOD of the HOLY SHRO
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