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quatercentenary

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qua·ter·cen·ten·a·ry  (kwtr-sn-tn-r, -snt-nr)
n. pl. qua·ter·cen·ten·a·ries
A quadricentennial.
[Latin quater, four times; see quaternary + centenary.]
quatercentenary [ˌkwætəsɛnˈtiːnərɪ]
n pl -naries
a 400th anniversary or the year or celebration marking it
[from Latin quater four times + centenary]
quatercentennial  adj & n
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Noun1.quatercentenary - the 400th anniversary (or the celebration of it)
quatercentennial
anniversary, day of remembrance - the date on which an event occurred in some previous year (or the celebration of it)
Translations
quatercentenary [ˌkwɒtəsenˈtiːnərɪ] N → cuarto centenario m
quatercentenary
n (also quatercentenary celebrations) → Vierhundertjahrfeier f; (= anniversary) → vierhundertster Jahrestag
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Coertze in 1945, no fewer than 33 Afrikaans translations of Shakespeare plays have appeared in South Africa, with a concentration of efforts in the late 1960s and early 1970s to celebrate the quatercentenary of the Bard's birth (cf Kruger 2000).
The role of discourse markers in an Afrikaans stage translation of ... by Kruger, Alet / Journal of Literary Studies
Commissione Colombiana, published in the early 1890s to mark the Quatercentenary.
Italian Reports on America, 1493-1522: Letters, Dispatches, and Papal ... by Watts, Pauline Moffitt / Renaissance Quarterly
And it has been Calderon, unsurprisingly, whose quatercentenary was celebrated in 2000, who has tended to dominate recent scholarship.
Drama in Golden-Age Spain: the state of the art by Pym, Richard / Shakespeare Studies
 
 
 
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