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centuryful en · NOUN

Etymology

From century + -ful.

Meanings

1. An amount that arises from or occurs over the course of a century.
   • Treat yourself to a centuryful of fascination. 1981, The Magazine Antiques - Volume 119, page 864:
   • It is obvious that a whole centuryful of people cannot really be either "right" or "wrong." 1942, George Jean Nathan, Henry Louis Mencken, The American Mercury - Volume 54, page 627:
   • A centuryful of the town's past life is piled up and squeezed into it. 1979, Ricardo Landeira, Critical Essays on Gabriel Miro, page 113:
   • Besides, here 's a chance to take in three centuryfuls of history at a gulp, already canned. 1924, Thomas Morris Longstreth, The Lake Superior Country, page 167:
   • One moment, then, Mozart wrote such great music that his own age would have none of it; the next moment he achieved this greatness through being one of a centuryful of busily and profitably and successfully employed composers. 1949, Bernard H. Haggin, Music in the Nation, page 10:

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