Sev"en*ty (?), a. [AS. hund-seofontig. See Seven, and Ten, and cf. Seventeen, Sixty.]

Seven times ten; one more than sixty-nine.

 

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Sev"en*ty, n.; pl. Seventies ().

1.

The sum of seven times ten; seventy units or objects.

2.

A symbol representing seventy units, as 70, or lxx.

The Seventy, the translators of the Greek version of the Old Testament called the Septuagint. See Septuagint.

 

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