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floruits

floruits is the plural of floruit.

Meaning of floruit

Noun

floruit (plural floruits)

  1. The time period during which a person, group, culture, etc. is at its peak.
    • Though Aristotle claimed that a human being reaches his intellectual peak at age forty-nine (Rhetoric 1390b9), chronologists reckon a person's flowering—his floruit—at about age forty. The mists of time have made the precise reckoning of chronology quite difficult. Sometimes, when a birth is not...2005, James A. Arieti, Philosophy in the Ancient World, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page xxi
    Synonyms:
    flowering

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Questions about floruits

What is floruits the plural of?
Floruits is the plural of floruit.

Words near floruits in the dictionary

  1. florosenine
  2. Florrie
  3. flors
  4. flortaucipir
  5. floruit
  6. floruits
  7. florula
  8. florulent
  9. flory
  10. Flory-Fox equation
  11. Florya

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