tercentenary
Americanadjective
adjective
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of or relating to a period of 300 years
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of or relating to a 300th anniversary or its celebration
noun
Etymology
Origin of tercentenary
Example Sentences
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And Mendelssohn wrote the “Reformation” Symphony for the tercentenary — but in 1830, the anniversary of the Augsburg Confession, not 1817, a year after the 7-year-old Mendelssohn, born Jewish, was baptized a Lutheran.
From New York Times ● Nov. 23, 2017
The Queen marked the tercentenary of the Revolution of 1688-89 and the Bill of Rights with another speech to MPs and peers.
From BBC ● Feb. 27, 2014
Bill was a fellow of both the Royal Society of Chemists and Society of Antiquaries of London, and contributed to the latter's tercentenary exhibition in 2007.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 6, 2010
The tercentenary celebrates its own ignorance of the past, while trampling over it.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 2, 2010
It contains, in addition to the lecture, an appendix, in which the eminent author makes suggestions for, and observations on, "a tercentenary memorial of Shakespeare."
From The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by Rameur, E.
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