threescore and ten

A form of three score and ten — Seventy, being the number of years in a full lifetime of traditionally-expected duration.

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  1. alternativeAlternative form of three score and ten.

    We live our lives in three dimensions for our threescore and ten allotted years. Yet every branch of contemporary science, from statistics to cosmology, alludes to processes that operate on scales outside of human experience: the millisecond and the nanometer, the eon and the light-year.

    2012 January 28, Robert L. Dorit, “Rereading Darwin”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 1, archived from the original on 14 Nov 2012, page 23

Synonyms & antonyms

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seventy
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