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quadriennial
Part of speech: AdjectiveOccurring once in four years; comprising four years.
Usage examples "quadriennial":- Always united in the purpose of regulating the affairs of the whole Union by the standard of the slaveholding interest, the disproportionate numbers of this section in the electoral colleges have enabled them, in ten out of twelve quadriennial elections, to confer the chief magistracy on one of their own citizens. - "Memoir of the Life of John Quincy Adams.", Josiah Quincy.
- The herd have to be watched by day, and driven in at the fall of night; that is the task of the boys and the youths who have not gone through with the quadriennial circumcision ceremonies and become El- morani, or warriors. - "African Camp Fires", Stewart Edward White.