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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A period of five years.
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The extent to which sentences have been shortened within the last twenty years can easily be ascertained by comparing the committals to prison and the daily average of the quinquenniad 1868-72 with the committals and the daily average of the quinquenniad 1884-88.
Crime and Its Causes William Douglas Morrison 1898
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