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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Extent.

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Examples

  • Nor is it any matter to be wondred at, in regard that Emperors, and the greatest Kings, hadde never made such extendure of their

    The Decameron 2004

  • Of all which matters, and many more beside, if I should make discourse to your Excellencie; this whole day, the night ensuing, and the next daies full extendure, are not sufficient to acquaint you withall.

    The Decameron 2004

  • Their under-garments were of costly Silke, yet white as the finest snow, framed (from the girdle upward) close to their bodies, but spreading largely downward, like the extendure of a Pavillion, and so descending to the feet.

    The Decameron 2004

  • Womens heads, with Crosses of no meane extendure: affirming to them, that the more the Coales wasted with making those great crosses, the more they still encreased in the Casket, as often before hee had made triall.

    The Decameron 2004

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