sexennial

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Definition of sexennial

2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. (not-comparable)Pertaining to a period of six years; taking place once every six years.
    “[T]his evil was exterior and accidental, and not so much the vice of their constitution itself, as it must be in your new contrivance of sexennial elective judicatories.”
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adj

  1. (not-comparable)Pertaining to a period of six years; taking place once every six years.
    “[T]his evil was exterior and accidental, and not so much the vice of their constitution itself, as it must be in your new contrivance of sexennial elective judicatories.”

noun

  1. A sexennial event.

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Etymology

From New Latin sexennialis (16th century), equivalent to sexennium + -al.

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