quincentenary

Examples

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• The quincentenary candidate has earned five centuries of critical interpretations and historical revisions.

  Academic text (1992)

• With the quincentenary of Columbus's voyage, there has been an increased interest, albeit modest, in the native peoples of the Caribbean and their cultural contributions.

  Academic text (1993)

• The Columbus Quincentenary framed these issues on an international level.

  Academic text (1994)

• Columbus is only a small part of the large story that is the quincentenary of 1492.

  Academic text (1992)

• The blessing of the quincentenary is the blossoming of ever more perspectives.

  Academic text (1992)

• The Northeast Indian Quarterly published an outstanding collection of essays on the quincentenary from a Native American perspective.

  Academic text (1992)

• The celebration of his achievement, as those of us preparing to survive the hoopla of the quincentenary know all too well, has never stopped.

  Academic text (1990)

• The Christopher Columbus quincentenary has been recognized by the publication of books, as well as film and television productions (Viola and Margolis 1991; Sale 1990).

  Academic text (1992)

• The quincentenary celebration has become, like UNCED, a forum for a multitude of interest groups who demand consultation, consideration, and influence in setting policy and interpreting history.

  Academic text (1992)

• "When surveyed on the multiple item question, 'In what way would you characterize the Quincentenary?' seventy percent of those responding described it either as '500 years of Native People's resistance to colonization,' or as an anniversary of a holocaust."

  Academic text (1992)

Synonyms

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quincentennial

vsquincentenary

• Formal

1 9.9

A 500th anniversary or its celebration

is the same meaning but used as an alternative written form

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