septuagint

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English

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Etymology

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From Latin septuaginta (seven tens, 70), chiefly under the influence of the Septuagint and the story of its team of translators, q.v.

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Noun

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septuagint (plural septuagints)

  1. (now rare) A group of 70 people or a collection of 70 things.
    • 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 14: Oxen of the Sun]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, [], →OCLC, part II [Odyssey], page 376:
      This tenebrosity of the interior, he proceeded to say, hath not been illumined by the wit of the septuagint nor so much as mentioned for the Orient from on high which brake hell’s gates visited a darkness that was foraneous.

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