fourscore
noun
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Pronunciation: /ˈfɔːskɔː/ / /ˈfɔɹskoɹ/
noun
Etymology: From four + score.
- A quantity or amount of eighty.
“W. J. Davis, a retired missionary, a veteran in the fourscores of his years.”
num
Etymology: From four + score.
- Eighty.
“Thou ſtick'ſt a dagger in me, I ſhall neuer ſee my gold againe, foureſcore ducats at aſitting, foureſcore ducats.”
“Euen thoſe that were numbꝛed of them, were eight thouſand, and fiue hundꝛed, and foureſcoꝛe.”
- A full-length life, reckoned as eighty years.
“[…] I know every life is equally sacred, but that is a thought, another thought, I mean, all these valuable people who aren’t going to have their normal fourscore as it is now, these people aren’t going to be replaced, and it’s such a loss to the culture.”