• Centurieslong

    Full definition of centurieslong

    Adjective

    centurieslong

    1. Alternative form of en.
      • 2000, The Black Hills: Kutch in History and Legend: A Study in Indian Local Loyalties, This study of Kutch today and yesterday is timely, since the State has now lost its centurieslong isolation and is making a vital contribution to the new India.
      • 2001, V. Subramaniam, Handbook of Comparative and Development Public Administration Chapter Indian Legacy of Administration, (1) Marx, according to one interpretation of the “Asiatic Mode of Production,” (2) regarded them as the cause of centurieslong stagnation of the process of economic evolution and was happy that British colonialism in India would set in motion fundamental changes.
      • 2001, Zeitenwechsel: 35 Jahre Berliner Kunstlerprogramm Chapter Olga Neuwirth, This bespeaks a striving analogous to the centurieslong attempt to establish an earthly counterpart to the music of the spheres, whose supposed essence – the very paragon of harmony – is said to be inspired by the harmonic interplay of celestial bodies in intergalactic space.
      • 2002, w:Tom Paulin, The Invasion Handbook Chapter Schwarzwald oder Bauhaus, ... the inner relationship of my own work to the Black Forest and its people comes from a centurieslong and irreplaceable rootedness in the Alemannian Swabian soil ...
      • 2003, Murray L. Eiland Jr.; Murray Eiland III, Oriental Carpets: A Complete Guide, The centurieslong UÅŸak series, including other western Anatolian types such as large- and small-pattern Holbeins and Lottos are almost certainly workshop products.
      • 2006, Robert Hieronimus, Founding Fathers, Secret Societies: Freemasons, Illuminati, Rosicrucians, and the Decoding of the Great Seal, I believe that we are at a point in time when we are witnessing a change in the historical record, a change in the discipline of historical writing that, as Vine Deloria Jr. put it, moves away from the “centurieslong simplistic doctrinal interpretation of history as a good white man/bad Indian scenario.”
      • 2009, Anthony S. Mercatante; w:James R. Dow, The Facts On File Encyclopedia of World Mythology and Legend Chapter Introduction, Source seeking set scholars off on a centurieslong quest that left us with intriguing theories and extensive compendia for comparing the various tales but otherwise produced far too little information to give us answers to our continuing quest for sources.
      • 2010, w:Herbert S. Klein, The Atlantic Slave Trade, The Mali Empire in the Upper Niger region was fairly unique in its use of a powerful royal household to select the monarch and this is often cited as one of the reasons for its unusual centurieslong longevity.
      • 26 June 2020, Katie Foran-McHale, New on DVD, But the centurieslong feud of a 74-year-old Scottish man isn’t the thing that makes the film feel dated.
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