Meaning of centurieslong | Babel Free

Definitions

Adjective. [C1]

Examples

“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.”

“(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.”

“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.”

“[…] 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 […]”

“The centurieslong Uşak series, including other western Anatolian types such as large- and small-pattern Holbeins and Lottos are almost certainly workshop products.”

“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.””

“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.”

“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.”

“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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