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quaternity
noun[ C ]
formaluk /kwəˈtɜː.nə.ti/ us /kwɑːˈtɝː.nə.t̬i/
a group of four things or people:
As a quaternity, the four streams remind us of the four rivers of Eden.
These four characters form the quaternity, three males plus a female fourth.
Because audiences had a strong feeling for quaternities, two marriages, uniting four people, was a conclusion that they found satisfying.
He describes four stages of development, but his treatment of this quaternity in his writing was quite brief.
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