Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for SEV'EN-TY
SEV'EN-TY, a. [D. zeventig; Sax. seofa, seven, and tig, ten; Goth. tig, Gr. δεκα, ten, but the Saxon writers prefixed hund, as hund-seofontig. See Lye ad voc and Sax. Chron. A. D. 1083.]
Seven times ten. That he would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem. – Dan. ix.
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