threescore years and ten

  • 1three score and ten — Meaning The span of a life. Seventy years, as given in the Bible. Origin The Bible, Psalms 90:10. The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow;… …

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  • 2threescore — three|score [ ,θri skɔr ] an old word meaning sixty : threescore years and ten (=70 years): He had lived for threescore years and ten …

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  • 3threescore — /ˈθriskɔ/ (say threeskaw) phrase threescore and ten, seventy years, especially when considered as a marker of old age …

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  • 7three score — UK / US number an old word meaning sixty threescore years and ten (= 70 years): He had lived for threescore years and ten …

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  • 8three score — UK US number an old word meaning ‘sixty’ threescore years and ten (=70 years): He had lived for threescore years and ten. Thesaurus: cardinal numbershyponym …

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  • 9Psalm 90 (Ives) — Psalm 90 is a musical composition by the American composer and insurance executive Charles Ives, written in 1923–24. Contents 1 Style 2 Text 3 Analysis 3.1 Introduction …

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  • 10Tennyson, Alfred, 1st Lord — (1809 1892)    Poet, was the fourth s. of George T., Rector of Somersby, Lincolnshire, where he was b. His f. was himself a poet of some skill, and his two elder brothers, Frederick T. (q.v.) and Charles T. Turner (q.v.), were poets of a high… …

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