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quatrumvirate en · NOUN

Etymology

From alteration of quadrumvirate or quartumvirate.

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative, obsolete) Alternative form of quattuorvirate: rule by four people.
    • For after all Sweden can have no interest in allowing a quatrumvirate to put hands on the whole of Europe. 1910, Claude-François Méneval, Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte, the Court of the First Empire:

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