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- noun Plural form of
decennary .
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Examples
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Only the first of every ten decennaries is also a decade.
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Here, 1971-1980, 1981-1990, 1991-2000, and 2001-2010 are decades as well as decennaries.
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The bishop presided in this court, together with the alderman; and the proper object of the court was, the receiving of appeals from the hundreds and decennaries, and the deciding of such controversies as arose between men of different hundreds.
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part A. From the Britons of Early Times to King John David Hume 1743
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In that case, it may take decennaries to pay off the balance.
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a manner surety for the behavior of those who were placed under the division to which he belonged; whence these decennaries received the name of frank-pledges.
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part A. From the Britons of Early Times to King John David Hume 1743
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In affairs of greater moment, in appeals from the decennary, or in controversies arising between members of different decennaries, the cause was brought before the hundred, which consisted of ten decennaries, or a hundred families of freemen, and which was regularly assembled once in four weeks, for the deciding of causes. [
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part A. From the Britons of Early Times to King John David Hume 1743
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