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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The Roman numeral for ‘seventy’; hence, the ‘Seventy’ (Latin Septuaginta) who, according to tradition, translated the Hebrew Scriptures into Greek; also the translation—the Septuagint itself. See Septuagint.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective the Roman numeral representation of seventy; seven times ten; -- a determinate quantifier.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the cardinal number that is the product of ten and seven
  • adjective being ten more than sixty

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  • The depth or the duration of his woe. admin Uncategorized charlotte turner smith, elegiac sonnets, jennifer kwon dobbs, sonnet lxx

    2009 » January 2009

  • The depth or the duration of his woe. admin Uncategorized charlotte turner smith, elegiac sonnets, jennifer kwon dobbs, sonnet lxx

    Jennifer Kwon Dobbs reads “Sonnet LXX” from Elegiac Sonnets by Charlotte Turner Smith 2009

  • Although New York in the late 1780s has been the subject of an immense body of respectable scholarship see DHRC XIX: lxx–lxxix, the importance of those volumes for understanding the politics of ratification may well exceed that for any other state that the series covered to the point they appeared.

    Ratification Pauline Maier 2010

  • Although New York in the late 1780s has been the subject of an immense body of respectable scholarship see DHRC XIX: lxx–lxxix, the importance of those volumes for understanding the politics of ratification may well exceed that for any other state that the series covered to the point they appeared.

    Ratification Pauline Maier 2010

  • Dr. and Master Sha Divine Teaching and, lxx explanation of, 15, 156

    Tao II Dr. 2010

  • Although New York in the late 1780s has been the subject of an immense body of respectable scholarship see DHRC XIX: lxx–lxxix, the importance of those volumes for understanding the politics of ratification may well exceed that for any other state that the series covered to the point they appeared.

    Ratification Pauline Maier 2010

  • Dr. and Master Sha Divine Teaching and, lxx explanation of, 15, 156

    Tao II Dr. 2010

  • Dr. and Master Sha Divine Teaching and, lxx explanation of, 15, 156

    Tao II Dr. 2010

  • Dr. and Master Sha Divine Teaching and, lxx explanation of, 15, 156

    Tao II Dr. 2010

  • The depth or the duration of his woe. admin Uncategorized charlotte turner smith, elegiac sonnets, r. erica doyle, sonnet lxx

    R. Erica Doyle reads “Sonnet LXX” [From Elegiac Sonnets] by Charlotte Turner Smith 2007

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