plurisecular

comparative more plurisecular · superlative most plurisecular

1. literaryrareOf or related to a span of several centuries, centuries-old.

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   M. Charles Rabot, secretary of the French Commission on Glaciers, is the author of a pamphlet entitled "Essai de Chronologie des Variations Glaciaires"... A complete primary oscillation, i.e. an increase and decrease, appears to have a duration of one or two centuries... There seems further to be a plurisecular period covering, in the case of the Alps, about three centuries.

   1903 March 26, anonymous author, Nature, volume 67, number 1743, page 495

   Rather than seeing in [the anonymous author of My Secret Life] a courageous fugitive from a "Victorianism" that would have compelled him to silence, I am inclined to think that, in an epoch dominated by (highly prolix) directives enjoining discretion and modesty, he was the most direct and in a way the most naïve representative of a plurisecular injunction to talk about sex.

   1978, Michel Foucault, translated by Robert Hurley, The History of Sexuality, volume I, page 22

   ...it is convenient to take into consideration, on one hand, registration in a program within a plurisecular story of academic mobilities and of the literary imagination linked to the juvenile journey and, on the other hand, the contribution of ERASMUS journeys to a socialisation centered on the meeting of individuals from different European countries.

   2013, Vincenzo Cicchelli, “The Cosmopolitan 'Bildung' of Erasmus Students' Going Abroad”, in Critical Perspectives on International Education, page 205

   Synonyms: secular, multisecular