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sexcentenary

(seks-sen-TEN-uh-ree)

adjective: Relating to the number 600 or a period of 600 years.

noun: A 600th anniversary.

[From Latin sex (six) + centenary (a period of 100 year), from centenarius.]

"These essays from a Cambridge conference held on the sexcentenary of the Lollard Twelve Conclusions (1395) explore questions that have arisen ...." William B Robison; Lollardy And the Gentry in the Later Middle Ages; The Historian (Allentown, Pennsylvania); Fall 1999.

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Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself. -Elie Wiesel, writer, Nobel laureate (1928- )

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