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quadrennial
Part of speech: AdjectiveLasting through four years; happening once in four years.
Part of speech: AdverbQuadrennially.
Usage examples "quadrennial":- 3. When, in 1876, the great quadrennial contest for the Presidency of the Union again recurred; it was rightly considered one of the most momentous crises that had yet occurred in American history. - "School History of North Carolina", John W. Moore.
- Agitation of the negro question became bad form in the North, except for quadrennial political purposes. - "Contemporary American History, 1877-1913", Charles A. Beard.
- In Germany, at the quadrennial meetings of the Froebel Union, it is the custom to carry specimens of the children's work in all these kinds. - "Guide to the Kindergarten and Intermediate Class and Moral Culture of Infancy.", Elizabeth P. Peabody Mary Mann.