Definitions
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- n. A literary work whose action covers a period of seven days
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A book containing the transactions of seven days.
Etymologies
hepta- + Ancient Greek ἡμέρα (hēmerā, "day"). (Wiktionary)
Examples
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The _heptameron_ is not a week, but a shadowy adumbration of a week.]
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