quinquennium in English
noun
1
a specified period of five years.
Two 4th-cent. writers ascribe to the later emperor Trajan the view that Nero surpassed all other principes for a quinquennium , apparently referring to the first five years.
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1. Such meetings should take place at least once during a quinquennium, as advised by the Commission.
2. As the quinquennium began, 94 countries could be classified as retentionist and a further 30 retained capital punishment but were considered de facto abolitionist on the grounds that no person had been judicially executed for at least 10 years.